Loglinear Publishing, 2001. — 239 p.
Guides economics students in the use of econometrics and forecasting, up to and including multivariate time series.
Trends, Cycles and Seasonality:
The trends.
Seasonality.
Modeling and Cycles.
Stationary Stochastic Process:
The short memory property.
The AR(1) model.
The autocovariance function.
The autocorrelation function.
Forecasting.
The backward shift operator.
The Wold representation.
The Yule-Walker Equation.
AR(p) process.
Some derivation using B.
The Wold representation for AR(p) process.
Stationarity conditions for AR(p) process.
Forecasting.
Some worked examples.
Estimation and Hypothesis testing.
The partial autocorrelation function.
ARMA(p,q) models:
MA(q) process.
Invertibility.
Mixed process.
Box-Jenkins identification.
Maximum likelihood estimation.
ARIMA(p,d,q) models.
Diagnostic tests.
TS versus DS models:
Implication of TS approach.
Implication of DS approach.
Summary of differences.
Testing for Unit Roots.
Multivariative time series:
VARMA(p,q) models.
VAR(p) estimation.
Granger causality.
Forecasting.
Cointegration.
Special topics:
The frequency domain.
Fractional differencing.
Non-linearity and Non-normality.