The analysis of integrated and cointegrated time series can be considered as
the main methodology employed in applied econometrics. This book not only
introduces readers to this topic but also enables them to conduct the various unit root
tests and cointegration methods by utilizing the free statistical programming environment
R. The book encompasses seasonal unit roots, fractional integration, coping with
structural breaks, and inference in co-integrated vector autoregressive models. The book
is enriched by numerous programming examples to artificial and real data so that it is
suitable as a supplementary text for computer lab classes.
Bernhard Pfaff studied economics at the universities of Göttingen,
Germany; Davis, California; and Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He obtained a diploma and a
doctorate degree at the economics department of the last one where he was employed as a
research and teaching assistant. He has worked for many years as economist and
quantitative analyst in research departments of financial institutions. Bernhard Pfaff is
the author and maintainer of the contributed R package "urca".
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Approx. 150 p., Softcover