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Bayes Estimates of Markov Trends in Possibly Cointegrated Series: An Application to US Consumption and Income

Stylized facts show that the average growth rates of US per capitaconsumption and income differ in recession and expansion periods.Since a linear combination of such series does not have to be a constant meanprocess, standard cointegration analysis between the variables, toexamine the permanent income hypothesis, may not be valid. To model thechanging growth rates in both series, we introduce a multivariate Markov trendmodel, which allows for different growth rates in consumption and incomeduring expansions and recessions. The deviations from the multivariateMarkov trend are modelled by a vector autoregressive model. Bayes estimates ofthis model are obtained using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The empiricalresults suggest that there exist a cointegration relation between US percapita disposable income and consumption, after correction for amultivariate Markov trend.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 99-024/4

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
multivariate Markov trend
cointegration
MCMC
permanent income hypothesis
Einkommenshypothese
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Paap, Richard
van Dijk, Herman K.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
1999

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Paap, Richard
  • van Dijk, Herman K.
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 1999

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