マクロ数量分析特研I

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第 1回  4月 11日 Objectives of analyzing multiple time series, some basics, vector autoregressive processes, stable VAR(p) processes
第 2回 18日 The moving average represenation of a VAR process, stationary processes, computation of autocovariances and autocorrelations of stable VAR processes,
the loss function, point forecasts, interval forecasts and forecast regions
第 3回 25日 Gragner causality, instantaneous causality, multi-step causality, impulse response analysis
第 4回  5月  2日 Impulse response analysis, forecast error variance decomposition, multivariate least squares estimation, asymptotic properties of the least squares estimator
第 5回  9日 Small sample properties of the LS estimator, least squares estimation with mean-adjusted data and Yule-Walker estimation, maximum likelihood estimation
第 6回 16日 Forecasting with estimated processes, testing for causality
第 7回 23日 cancelled
第 8回 30日 The asymptotic distribution of the impulse responses by simulation techniques, a sequence of tests for determining the VAR order
第 9回  6月  6日 A testing scheme for VAR order determination, criteria for VAR order selection
the asymptotic distributions of the autocovariances and autocorrelations of a white noise process
第10回 13日 The asymptotic distributions of the residual autocovariances and autocorrelations of an estimated VAR process, testing for nonnormality, tests for structural change
第11回 20日 VAR processes with parameter constraints, linear constraints, LS/GLS/EGLS/ML estimation, constraints for individual equations, restrictions for the white noise covariance matrix
第12回 27日 Forecasting, impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decomposition, specification of subset VAR models, model checking
第13回  7月  4日 Integrated processes, VAR processes with integrated variables, cointegrated processes, common stochastic trends, vector error correction models
第14回 11日 Deterministic terms in cointegrated processes, forecasting integrated and cointegrated variables, causality analysis, impulse response analysis
第15回 25日 Review