Published papers:

 

 

 

*   1. Testing Long-Horizon Predictive Ability with High Persistence, and the Meese-Rogoff Puzzle, International Economic Review 46(1), February 2005, 61-92.

 

 

*   2. Optimal Tests for Nested Model Selection with underlying Parameter Instability, Econometric Theory 21(5), October 2005, 962-990. (Matlab codes)

 

 

*   3. Confidence intervals for half-life deviations from Purchasing Power Parity, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 23(4), October 2005, 432-442. (Matlab codes) (Additional figures)

 

 

*   4. Do Technology Shocks Drive Hours Up or Down?, with E. Pesavento, Macroeconomic Dynamics 9(4), September 2005, 478-488. (Gauss Codes)

 

 

*   5. Recursive Predictability Tests for Real-Time Data, with A. Inoue, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 23(3), July 2005, 336-345. (Matlab Codes)

 

 

*   6. Small sample confidence intervals for multivariate IRF at long horizons with E. Pesavento, Journal of Applied Econometrics 21(8), December 2006, 1135-1155. (Additional appendix) (Matlab Codes)

 

 

*   7. Are Exchange Rates Really Random Walks? Some Evidence Robust to Parameter Instability Macroeconomic Dynamics 10(1), February 2006, 20-38. (Matlab codes and Additional Matlab codes)

 

 

*   8. Impulse Response Confidence Intervals for Persistent Data: What Have We Learned?, with E. Pesavento, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 2007, 2398-2412. (Matlab codes)

 

 

*   9. How stable is the forecasting performance of the yield curve for output growth?, with R. Giacomini, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 68(s1), December 2006, 783-795.

 

 

*   10. Expectations Hypotheses Tests and Predictive Regressions at Long Horizons, The Econometrics Journal 10(3), October 2007, 1-26. (Matlab codes: Code to implement the procedure; Replication codes: Monte Carlo & Empirical; Poster for Faro).

 

 

*   11. Monitoring and Forecasting Currency Crises, with A. Inoue, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 40(2-3), March-April 2008, 523-534.  Appendix (**)

 

 

*      12. Model Selection for Nested and Overlapping Non-Linear Dynamic and Possibly Misspecified Models, with M. Marcellino, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 70(s1), December 2008, 867-893.

 

 

*   13. Detecting and Predicting Forecast Breakdowns, with R. Giacomini (Matlab codes: Wald test variance, empirical, some Monte Carlos, maincodes). The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming, July 2009.

 

 

*   14. Forecast Comparisons in Unstable Environments, with R. Giacomini. Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.  

 

 

*      15. Has Models’ Forecasting Performance Changed Over Time, and When?, with T. Sekhposyan (additional Appendix). International Journal of Forecasting, forthcoming. (Matlab codes)

 

 

*      16. Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?, with Y. Chen and K. Rogoff. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming (Matlab codes)

 

 

 

 

Other publications:

 

 

 

*      Comment on “Exchange Rate Models Are Not as Bad as You Think”, by C. Engel, N. Mark and K.D. West. Prepared for the 2007 NBER Macroeconomics Annual.

 

 

*      “Where Are Commodity Prices Headed Next? Look at Exchange Rates”, with Y.C. Chen and K. Rogoff, Vox (www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1631). An older version of the paper is available as NBER Working Paper w13901, March 2008. Additional table.

 

 

 

 

Working Papers (submitted):

 

 

 

*   Information Criteria for Impulse Response Function Matching Estimation of DSGE Models, with A. Hall, A. Inoue, and J. Nason, Duke University Working Paper 2007-04

 

 

*      Identifying the Sources of Instabilities in Macroeconomic Fluctuations, with A. Inoue (Matlab codes: Empirical results), Duke University Working Paper 2008-02  Additional Not-for-Publication Appendix

 

 

*      Testing for Weak Identification in Possibly Nonlinear Models, with A. Inoue

 

 

*      What is the Importance of Monetary and Fiscal Shocks in Explaining US Macroeconomic Fluctuations?, with S. Zubairy

 

 

*   Model Comparisons in Unstable Environments, with R. Giacomini   (Matlab codes)

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

(*) In case you experience problems in reading the papers because some characters are not displayed, you should check that you have Adobe Acrobat installed in your computer and that you optimized its font settings (you may follow the instructions in http://www.tcisoft.com/techtalk/v30/30ts58.htm). Most papers are available also as Duke Working Papers at: http://www.econ.duke.edu/working_papers/working_papers.php.

(**) Please send an email for the codes: the files and data are too big to be posted.