We propose a new battery of dynamic specification tests for the joint hypothesis of iid-ness and density function based on the fundamental properties of independent random variables with identical distributions. We introduce a device — the autocontour — whose shape is very sensitive to...

We contribute to the rather thin literature on multivariate density forecasts by introducing a new framework for out-of-sample evaluation of multivariate density forecast models that builds upon the concept of autocontour proposed by Gonzalez-Rivera et al. (2011). This approach uniquely combines...

FRONT COVER -- ESSAYS IN HONOR OF AMAN ULLAH -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PHOTOS -- PART I TRIBUTE -- A SELECTIVE REVIEW OF AMAN ULLAH'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMETRICS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ROBUST INFERENCE -- 3. FINITE...