The econometric analysis of economic and business time series is a major field of
research and application. The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in
both theoretical and empirical developments in constructing time series models and in
their important application in forecasting. In Time Series Models for Business and
Economic Forecasting, Philip Franses examines recent developments in time series analysis.
The early parts of the book focus on the typical features of time series data in business
and economics. Part III is concerned with the discussion of some important concepts in
time series analysis, the discussion focuses on the techniques which can be readily
applied in practice. Parts IV-VIII suggest different modeling methods and model
structures. Part IX extends the concepts in chapter three to multivariate time series.
Part X examines common aspects across time series.
- Philip Franses is a rising star within econometrics teaching and research, this textbook
is based around his highly successful lecture programme
- The follow up book to two very successful CUP books in this area (MILLS/The Econometric
Modelling of Financial Time Series; HARVEY/The Forecasting of Structural Time Series)
- An easy to follow, up-to-date exposition including numerous examples and case studies,
making this the most accessible book in this area, and the best starting point for
nonspecialists
Contents
Part I. Introduction: Part II. Key Features of Economic Time Series: 2.1 Trends; 2.2
Seasonality; 2.3 Aberrant observations; 2.4 Conditional heteroskedasticity; 2.5
Nonlinearity; 2.6 Common features; Part III. Useful Concepts in Univariate Time Series
Analysis: 3.1 Autoregressive moving average models; 3.2 Autocorrelation and
identification; 3.3 Estimation and diagnostic measures; 3.4 Model selection; 3.5
Forecasting; Part IV. Trends: 4.1 Modeling trends; 4.2 Testing for unit roots; 4.3 Testing
for stationarity; 4.4 Forecasting; Part V. Seasonality: 5.1 Typical features of seasonal
time series; 5.2 Seasonal unit roots; 5.3 Periodic models; 5.4 Miscellaneous topics; Part
VI. Aberrant Observations: 6.1 Modeling aberrant observations; 6.2 Testing for aberrant
observations; 6.3 Irregular data and unit roots; Part VII. Conditional Heteroskedasticity:
7.1 Models for heteroskedasticity; 7.2 Specification and forecasting; 7.3 Various
extensions; Part VIII. Nonlinearity: 8.1 Some models and their properties; 8.2 Empirical
specification strategy; Part IX. Multivariate Time Series: 9.1 Representations; 9.2
Empirical model building; 9.3 Use of VAR models; Part X. Common Features: 10.1 Some
preliminaries for a bivariate time series; 10.2 Common trends and co-integration; 10.3
Common seasonality and other features; Data appendix.
Review
'Franses reviews the more recent developments in modeling time series to focus on
generating ex ante forecasts: seasonal unit roots, period models, aberrant observations,
and common features. For each method, intuitive motivation and practical considerations
are discussed in detail, making the book very readable ... should be beneficial for
students and instructors of applications-oriented courses as well as for practitioners who
wish to obtain a first, but not too technical, impression of time series forecasting using
modern , recently developed methods.' Journal of the American Statistical Association