UNIT ROOTS and COINTEGRATION for Applied Economists
(MINI-COURSE, 10+e hours)
Universidad de Leon
2012
Syllabus

Does Everything Grow? It Seems So:
USTrendsPopulation
USTrendsGovCrimeTransport
USTrendsMoneyPolitics
USTrendsEducationReligion
USTrendsBusinessCommunication
USTrendsLeisureHealth
USTrendsWork
[From "The First Measured Century" by T. Caplow, L. Hicks and B. Watenberg,  PBS 2001]

Some data that will be used during the course to put the theory into practice:


Introduction
Stochastic Processes Examples
1h 
Reading 1 (Ergodicity)
(from Breiman (1969) "Probability and Stochastic Processes: With a View Toward Applications")

 
The Land of Unit Roots
Graphs1
Graphs2

Nexus(A Testing Strategy from Enders (1995)).


Brief Introduction to Structural Breaks
2h

Simulation DF-Test Cvalues
(E-views Program)
             ShillerYearlyData.WF1

Reading 2 (Handbook of Econometrics, Jim Stock)
VAR Models Reading 3 (VAR notes by Mark Watson)
Reading 4 (Structural VAR notes by Eric Zivot)
Spurious Regression and Cointegration 

Nexus(Journal of Econometrics (1994), Jesús Gonzalo)

4h

Reading 5(Spurious Regression with I(0))

Reading 6 (Cointegration by Dolado, Gonzalo and Marmol)
 

Cointegration and Common Factors

Nexus (JBES 1995, Jesús Gonzalo and Clive Granger)

2h
Reading 7 (Explaining Cointegration Analysis I by Hendry and Juselius)

Reading 8 (Explaining Cointegration Analysis II by Hendry and Juselius)


 
Some Applications of Cointegration Analysis:
 
 
 
 

  
 
 

1h

* Present Value Models and Cointegration (Campbell and Shiller, 1987) , Data

* Arbitrage-Cointegration (Brenner and Kronner, 1995)

* Price Discovery (Harris, McInish and Wood, 2000)

* PPP Puzzle (Rogoff, 1996)

* Real Exchange Rate (Lothian and Taylor 1996)