Bootstrapping Impulse-Response Functions of Structural VAR Models

Author and guest post by Eren Ocakverdi

This blog piece intends to introduce a new add-in (i.e. COINCIDENT) that extends the current capability of EViews’ available features for obtaining bootstrapped draws of impulse response functions from structural VAR estimations.

Impulse responses by smooth local projections

Author and guest post by Eren Ocakverdi

This blog piece intends to introduce a new add-in (i.e. SMLOCALIRFS) that implements the methodology developed by Barnichon and Brownlees (2019).

Estimation of Coincident Index with Dynamic Factor Models

Author and guest post by Eren Ocakverdi

This blog piece intends to introduce a new add-in (i.e. COINCIDENT) that estimates a coincident index within a dynamic factor modeling framework.

Estimation of Local Linear Trend via Kalman Filter

Authors and guest post by Eren Ocakverdi

This blog piece intends to introduce a new add-in (i.e. LOCALLINEAR) that estimates local linear trends via Kalman filter.

Seasonal Adjustment in EViews 14 – Calendar Variables and Lunar New Year

In our previous blog post we examined how JDemetra+ can be used to perform seasonal adjustment in EViews, producing results identical to (or at least extremely similar to) those given by the ubiquitous X-13 package from the US Census.

The previous post didn’t discuss one of the more popular features of seasonal adjustment; calendar adjustments. In this post we’ll rectify that by demonstrating how to use calendar adjustments in JDemetra+, as well as how to create your own calendar effects, should you wish to build upon the built-in features. In particular we’ll demonstrate adding a Lunar (Chinese) New Year variable for JDemetra+.

Seasonal Adjustment in EViews 14 – Comparing X-13 and JDemetra+

Seasonal Adjustment is a mainstay of modern macro-economic analysis. Many economic time series exhibit seasonal fluctuations that need to be removed from the underlying patterns of the data before econometric analysis can be performed. In this two-part series we'll use EViews 14 to compare JDemetra+ to X13 in Part 1 and look at how to use JDemetra+ with the Lunar New Year in Part 2.

Generalized Autoregressive Score (GAS) approach to univariate GARCH Models

Authors and guest post by Eren Ocakverdi

This blog piece intends to introduce a new add-in (i.e. GASMODELU) that estimates selected univariate GARCH models within the Generalized Autoregressive Score (GAS) framework.