This article investigates whether uncompetitive pricing tactics are being employed in the retail petrol market in Australia through examining the effect of a change in daily oil prices on monthly petrol prices. To do ...
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This article investigates whether uncompetitive pricing tactics are being employed in the retail petrol market in Australia through examining the effect of a change in daily oil prices on monthly petrol prices. To do so, we incorporate asymmetry into the coefficients of a normalised beta weighting function within an Asymmetric mixed data sampling (AMIDAS) framework. This enables us to examine both the timing, and the lagged marginal effects, of a change in retail petrol prices in response to a change in the oil price. We find evidence of asymmetries in both the timing, and magnitude, of retail petrol prices to a change in the oil price. Specifically, we find that while price falls are slowly and symmetrically passed onto consumers, price increases are more delayed, but higher in intensity over time. Depending on the capital city, when retailers eventually do increase petrol prices, in response to an oil price rise with delay, the price rise is between 2.1 and 3.4 times more than when retailers reduce petrol prices in response to a fall in the price of oil. This finding is consistent with retailers delaying substantial petrol price rises in order to mask the existence of uncompetitive practices. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We re-examine the risk-return tradeoff in the U.S. equity market by allowing for time variation in the tradeoff and estimating conditional variance by the new mixed data sampling method. The main finding is that the r...
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We re-examine the risk-return tradeoff in the U.S. equity market by allowing for time variation in the tradeoff and estimating conditional variance by the new mixed data sampling method. The main finding is that the risk-return tradeoff is strongly time-varying with the state of the market and the average of the time-varying tradeoff estimates is 1.43. The lagged market return is found to be the best indicator of market states. The empirical finding holds true for a battery of robustness checks during the post-Compustat sample period. The evidence from the international markets is similar to the U.S. one. (C) 2016 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
This study examines Quantitative Easing policy programs of developed countries and their potential impact on Middle Income Countries through capital inflows. The study specifically focuses on the United States and Eur...
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This study examines Quantitative Easing policy programs of developed countries and their potential impact on Middle Income Countries through capital inflows. The study specifically focuses on the United States and European Union Quantitative Easing programs and investigates potential effects through the various transmission channels. An Autoregressive Multifactor MIDAS approach is used to carry out the empirical analysis and the study finds that lagged capital inflows are highly significant across the different models run and that there is evidence of transmission of quantitative easing to capital inflows to Middle Income Countries along the portfolio rebalancing and liquidity channels.
I analyze efficient estimation of a cointegrating vector when the regressand and regressor are observed at different frequencies. Previous authors have examined the effects of specific temporal aggregation or sampling...
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I analyze efficient estimation of a cointegrating vector when the regressand and regressor are observed at different frequencies. Previous authors have examined the effects of specific temporal aggregation or sampling schemes, finding conventionally efficient techniques to be efficient only when both the regressand and the regressors are average sampled. Using an alternative method for analyzing aggregation under more general weighting schemes, I derive an efficiency bound that is conditional on the type of aggregation used on the low-frequency series and differs from the unconditional bound defined by the full-information high-frequency data-generating process, which is infeasible due to aggregation of at least one series. I modify a conventional estimator, canonical cointegrating regression (CCR), to accommodate cases in which the aggregation weights are known. The correlation structure may be utilized to offset the potential information loss from aggregation, resulting in a conditionally efficient estimator. In the case of unknown weights, the correlation structure of the error term generally confounds identification of conditionally efficient weights. Efficiency is illustrated using a simulation study and an application to estimating a gasoline demand equation.
This paper analyses the forecastability of stock returns monthly volatility. The forecast obtained from GARCH and AGARCH models with Normal and Student's t errors are evaluated with respect to proxies for the unob...
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This paper analyses the forecastability of stock returns monthly volatility. The forecast obtained from GARCH and AGARCH models with Normal and Student's t errors are evaluated with respect to proxies for the unobserved volatility obtained through sampling at different frequencies. It is found that aggregation of daily multi-step ahead GARCH-type forecasts provide rather accurate predictions of monthly volatility. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Potentially valuable information about the underlying data generating process of a dependent variable is often lost when an independent variable is transformed to fit into the same sampling frequency as a dependent va...
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Potentially valuable information about the underlying data generating process of a dependent variable is often lost when an independent variable is transformed to fit into the same sampling frequency as a dependent variable. With the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) technique and increasingly available data at high frequencies, the issue of choosing an optimal sampling frequency becomes apparent. We use financial data and the MIDAS technique to estimate thousands of regressions and forecasts in the quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily sampling frequencies. Model fit and forecast performance measurements are calculated from each estimation and used to generate summary statistics for each sampling frequency so that comparisons can be made between frequencies. Our regression models contain an autoregressive component and five additional independent variables and are estimated with varying lag length specifications that incrementally increase up to five years of lags. Each regression is used to forecast a rolling, one and two-step ahead, static forecast of the quarterly Yen and U. S Dollar spot exchange rate. Our results suggest that it may be favourable to include high frequency variables for closer modeling of the underlying data generating process but not necessarily for increased forecasting performance.
The predictive power of recently introduced components affecting correlations is investigated. The focus is on models allowing for a flexible specification of the short-run component of correlations as well as the lon...
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The predictive power of recently introduced components affecting correlations is investigated. The focus is on models allowing for a flexible specification of the short-run component of correlations as well as the long-run component. Moreover, models allowing the correlation dynamics to be subjected to regime-shift caused by threshold-based structural breaks of a different nature are also considered. The results indicate that in some cases there may be a superimposition of the long-term and short-term movements in correlations. Therefore, care is called for in interpretations when estimating the two components. Testing the forecasting accuracy of correlations during the late-2000s financial crisis yields mixed results. In general, component models allowing for a richer correlation specification possess an increased predictive accuracy. Economically speaking, no relevant gains are found by allowing for more flexibility in the correlation dynamics. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper applies the GARCH-MIDAS (mixed data sampling) model to examine whether information contained in macroeconomic variables can help to predict short-term and long-term components of the return variance. A prin...
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This paper applies the GARCH-MIDAS (mixed data sampling) model to examine whether information contained in macroeconomic variables can help to predict short-term and long-term components of the return variance. A principal component analysis is used to incorporate the information contained in different variables. Our results show that including low-frequency macroeconomic information in the GARCH-MIDAS model improves the prediction ability of the model, particularly for the long-term variance component. Moreover, the GARCH-MIDAS model augmented with the first principal component outperforms all other specifications, indicating that the constructed principal component can be considered as a good proxy of the business cycle. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
We propose a Conditional Autoregressive Wishart (CAW) model for the analysis of realized covariance matrices of asset returns. Our model assumes an autoregressive moving average structure for the scale matrix of the W...
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We propose a Conditional Autoregressive Wishart (CAW) model for the analysis of realized covariance matrices of asset returns. Our model assumes an autoregressive moving average structure for the scale matrix of the Wishart distribution. It accounts for positive definiteness of covariance matrices without imposing parametric restrictions, and can be estimated by Maximum Likelihood. We also propose extensions of the CAW model obtained by including a mixed data sampling (MIDAS) component and Heterogeneous Autoregressive (HAR) dynamics for long-run fluctuations. The CAW models are applied to realized variances and covariances for five New York Stock Exchange stocks. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We propose a model of dynamic correlations with a short- and long-run component specification, by extending the idea of component models for volatility. We call this class of models DCC-MIDAS. The key ingredients are ...
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We propose a model of dynamic correlations with a short- and long-run component specification, by extending the idea of component models for volatility. We call this class of models DCC-MIDAS. The key ingredients are the Engle (2002) DCC model, the Engle and Lee (1999) component GARCH model replacing the original DCC dynamics with a component specification and the Engle et al. (2006) GARCHMIDAS specification that allows us to extract a long-run correlation component via mixed data sampling. We provide a comprehensive econometric analysis of the new class of models, and provide extensive empirical evidence that supports the model's specification. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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