380 Discussion Papers

• 15-053/III - Joint and Cross-border Patents as Proxies for International Technology Diffusion

  Authors: Chia-Lin Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Ju-Ting Tang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

  Date: May 11, 2015

• 15-050/III - Cyclicality in Losses on Bank Loans

  Authors: Bart Keijsers, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Bart Diris, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Erik Kole, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: May 04, 2015

• 15-044/III - Bibliometric Rankings of Journals based on the Thomson Reuters Citations Database

  Authors: Chia-Lin Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Date: March 31, 2015

• 15-042/III - The R-package MitISEM: Efficient and Robust Simulation Procedures for Bayesian Inference

  Authors: Nalan Basturk, Maastricht University , the Netherlands; Stefano Grassi, University of Kent, United Kingdom; Lennart Hoogerheide, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Anne Opschoor, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Herman K. van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: March 30, 2015

• 15-040/III - Testing for Stock Market Contagion: A Quantile Regression Approach

  Authors: Sungyong Park, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea; Wendun Wang, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Naijing Huang, Boston College, United States

  Date: March 26, 2015

• 15-037/III - Intraday Stock Price Dependence using Dynamic Discrete Copula Distributions

  Authors: Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Rutger Lit, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; André Lucas, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: March 19, 2015

• 15-032/III - How Informative are the Unpredictable Components of Earnings Forecasts?

  Authors: Bert de Bruijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Philip Hans Franses, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: March 06, 2015

• 15-029/III - Global Credit Risk: World, Country and Industry Factors

  Authors: Bernd Schwaab, European Central Bank, Financial Research, Germany; Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; André Lucas, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: February 26, 2015

• 15-027/III - In-Sample Bounds for Time-Varying Parameters of Observation Driven Models

  Authors: Francisco Blasques, VU University Amsterdam; Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam; Katarzyna Lasak, VU University Amsterdam; André Lucas, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: February 23, 2015

• 15-026/III - Frontiers in Time Series and Financial Econometrics: An Overview

  Authors: Shiqing Ling, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Howell Tong, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

  Date: February 20, 2015

• 15-022/III - On the Invertibility of EGARCH(p,q)

  Authors: Guillaume Gaetan Martinet, Paris Tech, France, Columbia University, USA; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

  Date: February 12, 2015

• 15-019/III - Sharp Threshold Detection based on Sup-Norm Error Rates in High-dimensional Models

  Authors: Laurent Callot, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Mehmet Caner, North Carolina State University, United States; Anders Bredahl Kock, Aarhus University, Denmark; Juan Andres Riquelme, North Carolina State University, United States

  Date: February 10, 2015

• 15-018/III - The Impact of Jumps and Leverage in Forecasting Co-Volatility

  Authors: Manabu Asai, Soka University, Japan; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Date: February 09, 2015

• 15-009/III - Penalized Indirect Inference

  Authors: Francisco Blasques, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Artem Duplinskiy, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: January 19, 2015

• 15-005/III - Quality Weighted Citations versus Total Citations in the Sciences and Social Sciences, with an Application to Finance and Accounting

  Authors: Chia-Lin Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Date: January 13, 2015

• 14-153/III - Econometric Analysis of Financial Derivatives: An Overview

  Authors: Chia-Lin Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

  Date: December 16, 2014

• 14-152/III - Combined Density Nowcasting in an Uncertain Economic Environment

  Authors: Knut Are Aastveit, Norges Bank, Norway; Francesco Ravazzolo, Norges Bank, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway; Herman K. van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: December 09, 2014

• 14-151/III - Hedge Fund Portfolio Diversification Strategies across the GFC

  Authors: David E. Allen, University of Sydney, University of South Australia, Australia; Michael McAleer, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Shelton Peiris, University of Sydney, Australia; Abhay K. Singh, Edith Cowan University, Australia

  Date: December 08, 2014

• 14-147/III - Estimation and Forecasting of Large Realized Covariance Matrices and Portfolio Choice

  Authors: Laurent Callot, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Anders B. Kock, Aarhus University, Denmark; Marcelo C. Medeiros, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

  Date: November 13, 2014

• 14-145/III - Vector Autoregressions with parsimoniously Time Varying Parameters and an Application to Monetary Policy

  Authors: Laurent Callot, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Johannes Tang Kristensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

  Date: November 07, 2014