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通胀预期与实际利率的期限结构AI 解读

I use a statistical model to combine various surveys to produce a term structure of inflation expectations—inflation expectations at any horizon—and an associated term structure of real interest rates. Inflation expectations extracted from this model track realized inflation quite well, and in terms of forecast accuracy, they are at par with or superior to some popular alternatives. The real interest rates obtained from the model follow Treasury Inflation-Protected…

高频数据的经验似然方法AI 解读

This paper introduces empirical likelihood methods for interval estimation and hypothesis testing on volatility measures in some high frequency data environments. We propose a modified empirical likelihood statistic that is asymptotically pivotal under infill asymptotics, where the number of high frequency observations in a fixed time interval increases to infinity. The proposed statistic is extended to be robust to the presence of jumps and microstructure noise. We also…

容纳不可观测异质性的平滑转换有限混合模型AI 解读

While the smooth transition (ST) model has become popular in business and economics, the treatment of unobserved heterogeneity within these models has received limited attention. We propose a ST finite mixture (STFM) model which simultaneously estimates the presence of time-varying effects and unobserved heterogeneity in a panel data context. Our objective is to accurately recover the heterogeneous effects of our independent variables of interest while simultaneously…

异质性与失业动态AI 解读

Many previous articles have studied the contribution of inflows and outflows to the cyclical variation in unemployment, but ignored the critical role of unobserved heterogeneity across workers. This article develops new estimates of unemployment inflows and outflows that allow for unobserved heterogeneity as well as direct effects of unemployment duration on unemployment-exit probabilities. With this approach, we can measure the contribution of different shocks to the…

收益可预测性对消费动态与资产定价的含义AI 解读

Two broad classes of consumption dynamics—long-run risks and rare disasters—have proven successful in explaining the equity premium puzzle when used in conjunction with recursive preferences. We show that bounds a-là Gallant, Hansen, and Tauchen that restrict the volatility of the stochastic discount factor by conditioning on a set of return predictors constitute a useful tool to discriminate between these alternative dynamics. In particular, we document that models that…

基于正则化奇异值分解的时间序列季节调整AI 解读

We propose a new seasonal adjustment method based on the Regularized Singular Value Decomposition (RSVD) of the matrix obtained by reshaping the seasonal time series data. The method is flexible enough to capture two kinds of seasonality: the fixed seasonality that does not change over time and the time-varying seasonality that varies from one season to another. RSVD represents the time-varying seasonality by a linear combination of several seasonal patterns. The right…

介于乌托邦与反乌托邦之间：多个不可比较前景的选择AI 解读

In many fields of decision making, choices have to be made from multiple alternatives, but stochastic dominance rules do not yield a complete ordering due to incomparability of some or all of the prospects. For ranking incomparable prospects, a “Utopia Index” measuring the proximity to a lower envelope of integrated distribution functions is proposed. Economic interpretations in terms of Expected Utility are provided for the envelope and deviations from it. The analysis…

参数随机前沿模型的驻点AI 解读

Stationary point results on the normal–half-normal stochastic frontier model are generalized using the theory of the Dirac delta, and distribution-free conditions are established to ensure a stationary point in the likelihood as the variance of the inefficiency distribution goes to zero. Stability of the stationary point and “wrong skew” results are derived or simulated for common parametric assumptions on the model. We discuss identification and extensions to more general…

非基本结构VARMA模型的识别与估计AI 解读

Abstract The basic assumption of a structural vector autoregressive moving average (SVARMA) model is that it is driven by a white noise whose components are uncorrelated or independent and can be interpreted as economic shocks, called “structural” shocks. When the errors are Gaussian, independence is equivalent to non-correlation and these models face two identification issues. The first identification problem is “static” and is due to the fact that there is an infinite…

对 Grover 与 Kaur 更正的回复：一种新的随机化回答模型AI 解读

In Gjestvang and Singh (2006), the properties of the estimator π^New are investigated when v = 1 and w = 0, which are obtained by taking p=α1/(β1+α1) and T=α2/(β2+α2)⁠. In this case, the correction that was made by Grover and Kaur (2020) is proper, i.e. any choice of α1, β1⁠, α2 and β2 will make v = 1 and w = 0. Note that the meaning of ‘specifically’ is ‘done in a definite and exact way’. Gjestvang and Singh (2006) have pointed out that ‘specifically’ we have the following…

高维假设检验的灵活框架AI 解读

Summary Hypothesis testing in the linear regression model is a fundamental statistical problem. We consider linear regression in the high dimensional regime where the number of parameters exceeds the number of samples (p > n). To make informative inference, we assume that the model is approximately sparse, i.e. the effect of covariates on the response can be well approximated by conditioning on a relatively small number of covariates whose identities are unknown. We develop…

高维广义线性模型的拟合优度检验AI 解读

Summary We propose a family of tests to assess the goodness of fit of a high dimensional generalized linear model. Our framework is flexible and may be used to construct an omnibus test or directed against testing specific non-linearities and interaction effects, or for testing the significance of groups of variables. The methodology is based on extracting left-over signal in the residuals from an initial fit of a generalized linear model. This can be achieved by predicting…

因果保序回归AI 解读

Summary In observational studies, potential confounders may distort the causal relationship between an exposure and an outcome. However, under some conditions, a causal dose–response curve can be recovered by using the G-computation formula. Most classical methods for estimating such curves when the exposure is continuous rely on restrictive parametric assumptions, which carry significant risk of model misspecification. Non-parametric estimation in this context is…

通过得分贡献符号翻转实现广义线性模型的稳健检验AI 解读

Summary Generalized linear models are often misspecified because of overdispersion, heteroscedasticity and ignored nuisance variables. Existing quasi-likelihood methods for testing in misspecified models often do not provide satisfactory type I error rate control. We provide a novel semiparametric test, based on sign flipping individual score contributions. The parameter tested is allowed to be multi-dimensional and even high dimensional. Our test is often robust against the…

通过自标准化检验函数型时间序列的实质性差异AI 解读

Summary We develop methodology for testing relevant hypotheses about functional time series in a tuning-free way. Instead of testing for exact equality, e.g. for the equality of two mean functions from two independent time series, we propose to test the null hypothesis of no relevant deviation. In the two-sample problem this means that an L2-distance between the two mean functions is smaller than a prespecified threshold. For such hypotheses self-normalization, which was…

两阶段抽样设计的统计推断AI 解读

Summary Two-stage sampling designs are commonly used for household and health surveys. To produce reliable estimators with associated confidence intervals, some basic statistical properties like consistency and asymptotic normality of the Horvitz–Thompson estimator are desirable, along with the consistency of associated variance estimators. These properties have been mainly studied for single-stage sampling designs. In this work, we prove the consistency of the…

利用耦合构造无偏马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛方法AI 解读

Summary Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods provide consistent approximations of integrals as the number of iterations goes to ∞. MCMC estimators are generally biased after any fixed number of iterations. We propose to remove this bias by using couplings of Markov chains together with a telescopic sum argument of Glynn and Rhee. The resulting unbiased estimators can be computed independently in parallel. We discuss practical couplings for popular MCMC algorithms. We…

空间数据密度估计的带宽选择AI 解读

Summary Bandwidth choice is crucial in spatial kernel estimation in exploring non-Gaussian complex spatial data. The paper investigates the choice of adaptive and non-adaptive bandwidths for density estimation given data on a spatial lattice. An adaptive bandwidth depends on local data and hence adaptively conforms with local features of the spatial data. We propose a spatial cross-validation (SCV) choice of a global bandwidth. This is done first with a pilot density…

利用稀疏线性规划优化两阶段自适应富集随机试验设计AI 解读

Summary Adaptive enrichment designs involve preplanned rules for modifying enrolment criteria based on accruing data in a randomized trial. We focus on designs where the overall population is partitioned into two predefined subpopulations, e.g. based on a biomarker or risk score measured at baseline. The goal is to learn which populations benefit from an experimental treatment. Two critical components of adaptive enrichment designs are the decision rule for modifying…

通过稳健梯度估计实现稳健估计AI 解读

Summary We provide a new computationally efficient class of estimators for risk minimization. We show that these estimators are robust for general statistical models, under varied robustness settings, including in the classical Huber ε-contamination model, and in heavy-tailed settings. Our workhorse is a novel robust variant of gradient descent, and we provide conditions under which our gradient descent variant provides accurate estimators in a general convex risk…

随机干预的因果中介分析AI 解读

Summary Mediation analysis in causal inference has traditionally focused on binary exposures and deterministic interventions, and a decomposition of the average treatment effect in terms of direct and indirect effects. We present an analogous decomposition of the population intervention effect, defined through stochastic interventions on the exposure. Population intervention effects provide a generalized framework in which a variety of interesting causal contrasts can be…

日内与隔夜波动率的耦合成分 DCS-EGARCH 模型AI 解读

We propose a semi-parametric coupled component exponential GARCH model for intraday and overnight returns that allows the two series to have different dynamical properties. We adopt a dynamic conditional score model with t-distributed innovations that captures the very heavy tails of overnight returns. We propose a several-step estimation procedure that captures the nonparametric slowly moving components by kernel estimation and the dynamic parameters by maximum likelihood.…

混合频率与混合样本数据的协整向量频域估计AI 解读

This paper proposes a simple method for exploiting the information contained in mixed frequency and mixed sample data in the estimation of cointegrating vectors. The asymptotic properties of easy-to-compute spectral regression estimators of the cointegrating vectors are derived and these estimators are shown to belong to the class of optimal cointegration estimators. Furthermore, Wald statistics based on these estimators have asymptotic chi-square distributions which enable…

不可微函数的后验分布AI 解读

This paper examines the asymptotic behavior of the posterior distribution of a possibly nondifferentiable function g(θ), where θ is a finite-dimensional parameter of either a parametric or semiparametric model. The main assumption is that the distribution of a suitable estimator θ̂n, its bootstrap approximation, and the Bayesian posterior for θ all agree asymptotically.