时空动态半参数变系数随机效应面板模型的估计

研究目标：克服半参数变系数面板模型中扰动项和因变量存在时空动态性问题。研究方法：提出一类更加一般化的时空动态半参数变系数随机效应面板模型，并构建截面似然估计量。研究发现：估计量具有良好的小样本性质，估计误差随着样本总量的提高而减小，在Case空间矩阵下，空间滞后和时空滞后系数的估计精度随空间复杂度的增大而降低，用该方法分析我国外商直接投资、知识产权保护与经济增长关系，进一步证实了模型的适用性。研究创新：证明了估计量满足一致性和渐近正态性，数值模拟考察了估计量的小样本性质。研究价值：拓展了现有半参数变系数空间面板模型的形式，增强了模型的适用性和解释力，有益于经济问题实证研究的开展。     

考虑结构突变的单位根检验程序研究——基于“新息异常值模型”的Perron检验分析

Perron检验是一种考虑结构突变的单位根检验方法,检验统计量的分布依赖于数据生成过程中所包含的确定性趋势和所选取的检验回归式;而在实证分析中真实的数据生成过程是未知的,这使得单位根检验缺乏必要依据,因而探寻科学有效的单位根检验程序是受到广泛关注的问题。基于此,本文在"IO模型"分析框架下,依据Perron检验提出了一套考虑结构突变的单位根检验程序,并通过蒙特卡洛模拟分析了该程序在有限样本情形下的表现。本研究完善了带有结构突变的单位根检验理论,为实证分析提供了有益的建议和参考。     

基于贝叶斯结构突变的随机系数动态面板模型研究

针对目前随机系数动态面板模型中存在内生变量初始值固定、个体自回归系数平稳以及不存在结构突变的种种限制,本文提出用分层贝叶斯方法首次检测和估计了含未知结构突变的随机系数动态面板模型。容许初始值与个体相关,自回归系数服从logitnormal分布保证平稳性,得到了未知结构突变和随机系数的后验密度估计。对1995年到2012年中国五省市出口总值月度数据进行实证分析,检测出四个结构突变,分析突变前后的情况表明出口总值存在三大特征：呈现稳定增长态势,但省市间差距逐渐扩大;重大的外部需求冲击对出口有显著影响;出口总值的结构突变有明显的季节特征.     

环境规制与经济增长关系再研究——基于半参数空间模型

论文采用2005-2017年我国30个省份的面板数据,考虑经济增长的溢出效应,利用空间杜宾模型和半参数空间杜宾模型研究环境规制与经济增长的关系。结果表明:第一,中国经济增长存在显著的正空间相关性,在普通参数模型和空间杜宾模型中环境规制对经济增长的影响不显著。第二,半参数空间杜宾模型的拟合优度高于空间杜宾模型,同时,环境规制与经济增长存在显著的非线性关系。     

变系数动态面板数据模型的半参数估计

本文把一般的常系数的动态面板数据模型拓广到变系数的情形。对于变系数的动态面板数据模型首先推导出模型所隐含的各种矩条件,然后利用广义矩估计的方法得到了模型中未知参数的半参数广义矩估计,最后对于我们所得到的估计的渐进性和一致性进行证明。     

生产率增长测算的半参数估计方法:理论综述和相关探讨

半参数模型是参数和非参数回归模型的一种概括统一，其中的参数分量部分用于对确定性影响因素进行分析，而非参数分量部分则用于对随机干扰因素的刻画。Olley和Pakes最早给出了关于生产率增长测算的半参数估计方法的研究，Ackerberg和Caves对这一研究进行了修正和补充。但由于理论发展方面还不够成熟，限制了方法的实证应用。半参数方法对经济现实的描述更接近真实，随着半参数估计理论的日渐成熟，半参数估计方法在生产率增长测算领域必将发挥越来越大的作用。     

大数据背景下面板数据政策评估的估计和推断

研究目标:介绍大数据背景下基于面板数据模型的政策评估方法的最新进展与相关应用。研究方法:回顾双重差分法、合成控制法、面板数据方法、因子估计方法和机器学习方法这几类方法在估计面板数据因果效应方面的最新进展后，介绍现有研究中基于上述估计量的推断方法，最后报告已有文献对于不同方法的对比，并提供实证应用建议。研究发现:当实证应用问题中随时间变化的因子个数超过一个时，特别要关注基于双向固定效应的双重差分法的适用性。运用双向固定效应设定模型不恰当时，可考虑使用基于交互固定效应模型的因子模型类估计和推断方法。研究创新:从大数据时代的政策评估需求出发，梳理基于面板数据的因果效应估计和推断方法并给出应用建议。研究价值:为实证研究者提供了选择政策评估方法的参考指南。     

购买力平价与金融危机基于结构突变下的面板单位根检验

本文采用外生结构突变下面板数据单位根检验方法和传统的检验方法，比较研究了东南亚七国或地区的实际汇率受金融危机冲击的影响，发现东南亚七国或地区的实际汇率是带有结构突变的退势平稳过程，外生结构突变条件下的面板单位根检验结果支持购买力平价理论，实际汇率对购买力平价的背离是短期的：但在不考虑结构突变的情况下，却得出不同的结论，而蒙特卡洛模拟实验表明前者更为可信。     

基于结构突变和截面相关的面板协整检验

本文基于Westerlund和Edgerton（2008）,考虑了无时间趋势和有时间趋势的面板协整检验。在检验协整时,本文不仅允许误差项存在异方差、序列相关以及截面相关,而且还允许各截面在截距和协整斜率上存在未知时点的多个突变点。蒙特卡洛模拟结果表明,（1）该检验的具有较小的水平扭曲和较高的检验势,（2）将模型拓展到不含有趋势项的情形是必要的。在此基础上,使用基于动态最小二乘估计量的新统计量对国际CO2排放和经济增长关系进行检验,发现在考虑了突变和截面相关的情形下,两者间的长期均衡关系确实存在。     

固定交互效应面板截取模型的ECM算法

交互效应面板数据模型在社会经济问题的实证分析中具有很强的适用性,但现有研究主要集中于线性面板模型。本文将交互效应引入非线性的面板截取模型,并基于ECM算法,建立了有效估计量和识别程序。基于不同因子类型的仿真实验结果显示,ECM算法可以很好地识别面板截取样本中的非观测因子。ECM估计量具有良好的有限样本性质,与其他估计量相比具有更小的偏误和更快的收敛速度。尤其是当共同因子为低频平滑因子时,其表现最为理想。     

Interactive R&D spillovers: An estimation strategy based on forecasting-driven model selection

This paper proposes an estimation strategy that exploits recent non-parametric panel data methods that allow for a multifactor error structure and extends a recently proposed data-driven model-selection procedure, which has its roots in cross validation and aims to test whether two competing approximate models are equivalent in terms of their expected true error. We extend this procedure to a large panel data framework by using moving block bootstrap resampling techniques in order to preserve cross-sectional dependence in the bootstrapped samples. Such an estimation strategy is illustrated by revisiting an analysis of international technology diffusion. Model selection procedures clearly conclude in the superiority of a fully non-parametric (non-additive) specification over parametric and even semi-parametric (additive) specifications. This work also refines previous results by showing threshold effects, non-linearities, and interactions that are obscured in parametric specifications and which have relevant implications for policy.     

Nonparametric expected shortfall forecasting incorporating weighted quantiles

A new semi-parametric expected shortfall (ES) estimation and forecasting framework is proposed. The proposed approach is based on a two-step estimation procedure. The first step involves the estimation of value at risk (VaR) at different quantile levels through a set of quantile time series regressions. Then, the ES is computed as a weighted average of the estimated quantiles. The quantile weighting structure is parsimoniously parameterized by means of a beta weight function whose coefficients are optimized by minimizing a joint VaR and ES loss function of the Fissler–Ziegel class. The properties of the proposed approach are first evaluated with an extensive simulation study using two data generating processes. Two forecasting studies with different out-of-sample sizes are then conducted, one of which focuses on the 2008 Global Financial Crisis period. The proposed models are applied to seven stock market indices, and their forecasting performances are compared to those of a range of parametric, non-parametric, and semi-parametric models, including GARCH, conditional autoregressive expectile (CARE), joint VaR and ES quantile regression models, and a simple average of quantiles. The results of the forecasting experiments provide clear evidence in support of the proposed models.     

分整阶数半参数估计的有限样本性质研究

随着对经济和金融时间序列长记忆性的研究,分整阶数估计已成为当前理论研究的焦点问题。以对数周期图回归和局部Whittle方法为代表的半参数分整阶数估计方法在实践中得到广泛应用,但对这两类半参数估计方法的有限样本性质的比较则鲜有涉及,影响了在实践中对估计方法的选择。利用蒙特卡洛模拟方法,在不同数据产生的过程下,这两种半参数估计方法有限样本性质的研究结果表明：在ARFIMA(0, d, 0)过程下,LW类估计量具有较好的小样本性质;在平稳ARFIMA(1, d, 0)过程下,本文建议的QGPH估计量的有限样本性质要优于其他对数周期图估计量;在非平稳过程下,MGPH的偏差最小。     

具有异质性非参数时间趋势的面板数据模型的估计

本文为一类具有异质性非参数时间趋势的面板数据模型提出了一种简单估计方法。基于局部多项式回归的思想,首先去除数据中的时间趋势成分,然后由最小二乘法来估计公共系数,同时得到时间趋势函数的非参数估计。在一些正则条件下,研究了这些估计量的渐近性质,即在时间维度T和横截面维度n同时趋向无穷时,建立了各个估计量的渐近相合性和渐近正态性。最后通过蒙特卡洛模拟,考查了这种估计方法的有限样本性质。     

Nonparametric estimation and testing of fixed effects panel data models

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating nonparametric panel data models with fixed effects. We introduce an iterative nonparametric kernel estimator. We also extend the estimation method to the case of a semiparametric partially linear fixed effects model. To determine whether a parametric, semiparametric or nonparametric model is appropriate, we propose test statistics to test between the three alternatives in practice. We further propose a test statistic for testing the null hypothesis of random effects against fixed effects in a nonparametric panel data regression model. Simulations are used to examine the finite sample performance of the proposed estimators and the test statistics.     

Binary response panel data models with sample selection and self‐selection

We consider estimating binary response models on an unbalanced panel, where the outcome of the dependent variable may be missing due to nonrandom selection, or there is self‐selection into a treatment. In the present paper, we first consider estimation of sample selection models and treatment effects using a fully parametric approach, where the error distribution is assumed to be normal in both primary and selection equations. Arbitrary time dependence in errors is permitted. Estimation of both coefficients and partial effects, as well as tests for selection bias, are discussed. Furthermore, we consider a semiparametric estimator of binary response panel data models with sample selection that is robust to a variety of error distributions. The estimator employs a control function approach to account for endogenous selection and permits consistent estimation of scaled coefficients and relative effects.     

A prediction comparison of housing sales prices by parametric versus semi-parametric regressions

This study estimates a hedonic price function using a semi-parametric regression and compares the price prediction performance with conventional parametric models. This study utilizes a large data set representing 2595 single-family residential home sales between July 2000 and June 2002 from Pitt County, North Carolina. Data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are incorporated to account for locational attributes of the houses. The results show that the semi-parametric regression outperforms the parametric counterparts in both in-sample and out-of-sample price predictions, indicating that the semi-parametric model can be useful for measurement and prediction of housing sales prices.     

具有AR(p)误差的半参数回归模型的参数估计

近年来,半参数模型是处理回归问题的有力工具,进年来,已经成为当今回归分析的热点,引起了众多学者的关注。文章研究了具有AR(p)误差的半参数回归模型,首先对其误差的相关性进行了消除,然后将模型转变成为经典的半参数回归模型,运用惩罚最小二乘估计方法对模型参数进行了估计。     

Discrete time duration models with group-level heterogeneity

Dynamic discrete choice panel data models have received a great deal of attention. In those models, the dynamics is usually handled by including the lagged outcome as an explanatory variable. In this paper we consider an alternative model in which the dynamics is handled by using the duration in the current state as a covariate. We propose estimators that allow for group-specific effect in parametric and semiparametric versions of the model. The proposed method is illustrated by an empirical analysis of job durations allowing for firm-level effects.