The COVID-19 shock and challenges for inflation modelling

E Bobeica, B Hartwig - International journal of forecasting, 2023 - Elsevier
We document the impact of COVID-19 on inflation modelling within a vector autoregression
(VAR) model and provide guidance for forecasting euro area inflation during the pandemic …

Does the volatility of commodity prices reflect macroeconomic uncertainty?

M Joëts, V Mignon, T Razafindrabe - Energy Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
While there exists numerous studies on the macroeconomic effects of oil and commodity
shocks, the literature is quite silent on the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on oil and …

Macroeconomic forecasting with large Bayesian VARs: Global-local priors and the illusion of sparsity

JL Cross, C Hou, A Poon - International Journal of Forecasting, 2020 - Elsevier
A class of global-local hierarchical shrinkage priors for estimating large Bayesian vector
autoregressions (BVARs) has recently been proposed. We question whether three such …

Large order-invariant Bayesian VARs with stochastic volatility

JCC Chan, G Koop, X Yu - Journal of Business & Economic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Many popular specifications for Vector Autoregressions (VARs) with multivariate stochastic
volatility are not invariant to the way the variables are ordered due to the use of a lower …

Large Bayesian VARs: A flexible Kronecker error covariance structure

JCC Chan - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We introduce a class of large Bayesian vector autoregressions (BVARs) that allows for non-
Gaussian, heteroscedastic, and serially dependent innovations. To make estimation …

[HTML][HTML] Volatility predictability in crude oil futures: Evidence based on OVX, GARCH and stochastic volatility models

Z Zhang, MY Raza, W Wang, L Sui - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper examines the volatility predictive ability of the CBOE crude oil volatility index
(OVX), GARCH and Stochastic Volatility Models in the crude oil market. Specifically, the …

The COVID-19 shock and challenges for time series models

E Bobeica, B Hartwig - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We document the impact of COVID-19 on frequently employed time series models, with a
focus on euro area inflation. We show that for both single equation models (Phillips curves) …

On the observed-data deviance information criterion for volatility modeling

JCC Chan, AL Grant - Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We propose importance sampling algorithms based on fast band matrix routines for
estimating the observed-data likelihoods for a variety of stochastic volatility models. This is …

Regional output growth in the United Kingdom: More timely and higher frequency estimates from 1970

G Koop, S McIntyre, J Mitchell… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Output growth estimates for regions of the UK are currently published at an annual
frequency only, released with a long delay, and offer limited historical coverage. To improve …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty matters: Evidence from close elections

C Redl - Journal of International Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper uses a data rich environment to produce direct econometric estimates of
macroeconomic and financial uncertainty for 11 advanced nations. These indices exhibit …