Inference in mixed causal and noncausal models with generalized Student’s t-distributions

Francesco Giancaterini and Alain Hecq

Econometrics and Statistics, 2025, vol. 33, issue C, 1-12

Abstract: The properties of Maximum Likelihood estimator in mixed causal and noncausal models with a generalized Student’s t error process are reviewed. Several known existing methods are typically not applicable in the heavy-tailed framework. To this end, a new approach to make inference on causal and noncausal parameters in finite sample sizes is proposed. It exploits the empirical variance of the generalized Student’s t, without the existence of population variance. Monte Carlo simulations show a good performance of the new variance construction for fat tail series. Finally, different existing approaches are compared using three empirical applications: the variation of daily COVID-19 deaths in Belgium, the monthly wheat prices, and the monthly inflation rate in Brazil.

Keywords: MLE; noncausal models; generalized Student’s t-distribution; robust inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.11.007

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