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《非线性世界中的动态因果效应》讨论：效应大小与大冲击AI 解读

The ease of estimating linear local projections has made them a popular tool for impulse response function analysis. Kolesár and Plagborg-Møller’s main goal is to inquire whether local projections (LP) estimands of impulse response functions have a causal interpretation when the data generating process (DGP) is nonlinear. This discussion focuses on two questions. First, how should we interpret the magnitude of the linear LP estimands in nonlinear environments? Second, is the…

实时数据下样本外预测能力检验的自助法AI 解读

In this paper we develop a block bootstrap approach to out-of-sample inference when real-time data are used to produce forecasts. In particular, we establish its first-order asymptotic validity for West-type (1996) tests of predictive ability in the presence of regular data revisions. This allows the user to conduct asymptotically valid inference without having to estimate the asymptotic variances derived in Clark and McCracken’s (2009) extension of West (1996) when data are…

存在偏差时的自助法推断AI 解读

We consider bootstrap inference for estimators which are (asymptotically) biased. We show that, even when the bias term cannot be consistently estimated, valid inference can be obtained by proper implementations of the bootstrap. Specifically, we show that the prepivoting approach of Beran (1987, 1988), originally proposed to deliver higher-order refinements, restores bootstrap validity by transforming the original bootstrap p-value into an asymptotically uniform random…

《误差可预测时的反事实结果插补》作者回应AI 解读

We thank Bruno Ferman (BF), Marcelo Medeiros (MM), Yuya Sasaki (YS), and Kaspar Wüthrich (KW) for their constructive comments on our paper. Below are some further thoughts.1 The discussants offered...

误差可预测时的反事实结果插补AI 解读

A crucial input into causal inference is the imputed counterfactual outcome. Imputation error can arise because of sampling uncertainty from estimating the prediction model using the untreated observations, or from out-of-sample information not captured by the model. While the literature has focused on sampling uncertainty, it vanishes with the sample size. Often overlooked is the possibility that the out-of-sample error can be informative about the missing counterfactual…

状态依赖的局部投影AI 解读

Do state-dependent local projections asymptotically recover the population responses of macroeconomic aggregates to structural shocks? The answer to this question depends on how the state of the economy is determined and on the magnitude of the shocks. When the state is exogenous, the local projection estimator recovers the population response regardless of the shock size. When the state depends on macroeconomic shocks, as is common in empirical work, local projections only…

时间序列模型两阶段准极大似然估计的 Bootstrap 推断AI 解读

This article provides results on the validity of bootstrap inference methods for two-stage quasi-maximum likelihood estimation involving time series data, such as those used for multivariate volatility models or copula-based models. Existing approaches require the researcher to compute and combine many first- and second-order derivatives, which can be difficult to do and is susceptible to error. Bootstrap methods are simpler to apply, allowing the substitution of capital…

横截面依赖下的自助法推断AI 解读

In this paper, we introduce a method of generating bootstrap samples with unknown patterns of cross‐ sectional/spatial dependence, which we call the spatial dependent wild bootstrap. This method is a spatial counterpart to the wild dependent bootstrap of Shao (2010) and generates data by multiplying a vector of independently and identically distributed external variables by the eigendecomposition of a bootstrap kernel. We prove the validity of our method for studentized and…

含非线性解释变量的结构动态模型脉冲响应分析AI 解读

We study the construction of nonlinear impulse responses in linear structural dynamic models that include nonlinearly transformed regressors. We derive the closed-form solution for the population impulse responses to a given shock and propose a control function approach to estimating these responses without taking a stand on how the remainder of the model is identified. Our plug-in estimator dispenses with the need for simulations and, unlike conventional local projection…

存在横截面依赖的因子模型自助法AI 解读

We consider bootstrap methods for factor-augmented regressions with cross sectional dependence among idiosyncratic errors. This is important to capture the bias of the OLS estimator derived recently by Gonçalves and Perron (2014). We first show that a common approach of resampling cross sectional vectors over time is invalid in this context because it induces a zero bias. We then propose the cross-sectional dependent (CSD) bootstrap where bootstrap samples are obtained by…

高频跳跃检验的自助法AI 解读

The main contribution of this article is to propose a bootstrap test for jumps based on functions of realized volatility and bipower variation. Bootstrap intraday returns are randomly generated from a mean zero Gaussian distribution with a variance given by a local measure of integrated volatility (which we denote by {v^in}). We first discuss a set of high-level conditions on {v^in} such that any bootstrap test of this form has the correct asymptotic size and is…

一阶局部欠识别下 GMM 过度识别检验的自助法AI 解读

The main contribution of this paper is to study the applicability of the bootstrap to estimating the distribution of the standard test of overidentifying restrictions of Hansen (1982) when the model is globally identified but the rank condition fails to hold (lack of first-order local identification). An important example for which these conditions are verified is the popular test of common conditionally heteroskedastic features proposed by Engle and Kozicki (1993). As…

市场微观结构噪声下预平均已实现波动率的自助推断AI 解读

The main contribution of this paper is to propose a bootstrap method for inference on integrated volatility based on the pre-averaging approach, where the pre-averaging is done over all possible overlapping blocks of consecutive observations. The overlapping nature of the pre-averaged returns implies that the leading martingale part in the pre-averaged returns are k n -dependent with k n growing slowly with the sample size n . This motivates the application of a blockwise…

含估计因子的嵌套模型等预测精度检验AI 解读

In this paper we develop asymptotics for tests of equal predictive ability between nested models when factor-augmented regressions are used to forecast. We provide conditions under which the estimation of the factors does not affect the asymptotic distributions developed in Clark and McCracken (2001) and McCracken (2007). This enables researchers to use the existing tabulated critical values when conducting inference despite the presence of estimated predictors. As an…

因子模型的Bootstrap预测区间AI 解读

We propose bootstrap prediction intervals for an observation h periods into the future and its conditional mean. We assume that these forecasts are made using a set of factors extracted from a large panel of variables. Because we treat these factors as latent, our forecasts depend both on estimated factors and estimated regression coefficients. Under regularity conditions, asymptotic intervals have been shown to be valid under Gaussianity of the innovations. The bootstrap…

个体固定效应线性动态面板模型的自助法推断AI 解读

This paper’s main contribution is to propose and theoretically justify the application of bootstrap methods for inference in autoregressive panel data models with fixed effects. Whereas the focus of the existing literature has been on bias correcting the standard fixed effects OLS estimator (due to the well known incidental parameter bias), our focus here is on improving the quality of inference by relying on the bootstrap instead of the standard normal distribution when…

因子增强回归模型的自助法AI 解读

This paper proposes and theoretically justifies bootstrap methods for regressions where some of the regressors are factors estimated from a large panel of data. We derive our results under the assumption that T/N→c, where 0≤c<∞ (N and T are the cross-sectional and the time series dimensions, respectively), thus allowing for the possibility that the factor estimation error enters the limiting distribution of the OLS estimator as an asymptotic bias term (as was recently…

多元已实现波动指标的自助法AI 解读

We propose a bootstrap method for statistics that are a function of multivariate high frequency returns such as realized regression, covariance and correlation coefficients. We show that the finite sample performance of the bootstrap is superior to the existing first-order asymptotic theory. Nevertheless, and contrary to the existing results in the bootstrap literature for regression models subject to error heteroskedasticity, the Edgeworth expansion for the pairs bootstrap…

个体固定效应面板线性回归的移动区块自助法AI 解读

In this paper we propose a bootstrap method for panel data linear regression models with individual fixed effects. The method consists of applying the standard moving blocks bootstrap of Künsch (1989, Annals of Statistics 17, 1217–1241) and Liu and Singh (1992, in R. LePage & L. Billiard (eds.), Exploring the Limits of the Bootstrap ) to the vector containing all the individual observations at each point in time. We show that this bootstrap is robust to serial and…

区块自助法 HAC 稳健检验：朴素自助法的精细性质AI 解读

This paper studies the properties of naive block bootstrap tests that are scaled by zero frequency spectral density estimators (long-run variance estimators). The naive bootstrap is a bootstrap where the formula used in the bootstrap world to compute standard errors is the same as the formula used on the original data. Simulation evidence shows that the naive bootstrap can be much more accurate than the standard normal approximation. The larger the HAC bandwidth, the greater…

已实现波动率的 Box–Cox 变换AI 解读

The log transformation of realized volatility is often preferred to the raw version of realized volatility because of its superior finite sample properties. One of the possible explanations for this finding is the fact the skewness of the log transformed statistic is smaller than that of the raw statistic. Simulation evidence presented here shows that this is the case. It also shows that the log transform does not completely eliminate skewness in finite samples. This…

线性回归的自助法标准误估计AI 解读

Standard errors of parameter estimates are widely used in empirical work. The bootstrap often can provide a convenient means of estimating standard errors. The conditions under which bootstrap standard error estimates are theoretically justified have not received much attention, however. This article establishes conditions for the consistency of the moving blocks bootstrap estimators of the variance of the least squares estimator in linear dynamic models with dependent data.…

依赖异质阵列样本均值的自助法AI 解读

Presently, conditions ensuring the validity of bootstrap methods for the sample mean of (possibly heterogeneous) near epoch dependent (NED) functions of mixing processes are unknown. Here we establish the validity of the bootstrap in this context, extending the applicability of bootstrap methods to a class of processes broadly relevant for applications in economics and finance. Our results apply to two block bootstrap methods: the moving blocks bootstrap of Künsch (1989,…