David E. Rapach, Associate Professor of Economics

Mailing Address:

Department of Economics
Saint Louis University
3674 Lindell Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63108-3397

Telephone: 314-977-3601; Fax: 314-977-1478; E-mail: rapachde@slu.edu

Links:

·        Curriculum Vitae (.html) (.pdf)

·        Research Papers (including publications, working papers, GAUSS and MATLAB files, appendices)

·        Class Materials: ECON 312 Intermediate Macroeconomics; ECON 420 Money and Banking; ECON 652 Advanced Macro Theory I

·        I’m a Research Economist at the Simon Center for Regional Forecasting at Saint Louis University, and research relating to some of my activities at the Simon Center is available here

·        Personal stuff

Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

·         “Differences in Housing Price Forecastability Across U.S. States,” with Jack K. Strauss, International Journal of Forecasting, forthcoming

·        “Multi-Period Portfolio Choice and the Intertemporal Hedging Demands for Stocks and Bonds: International Evidence,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming

·        “Bagging or Combining (or Both)? An Analysis Based on Forecasting U.S. Employment Growth,” with Jack K. Strauss, Econometric Reviews, forthcoming

·        “Structural Breaks and GARCH Models of Exchange Rate Volatility,” with Jack K. Strauss, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January-February 2008), pp. 65-90

·        “Forecasting U.S. Employment Growth Using Forecast Combining Methods,” with Jack K. Strauss, Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2008), pp. 75-93

·        “Forecasting the Recent Behavior of U.S. Business Fixed Investment Spending: An Analysis of Competing Models,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2007), pp. 33-51

·        “Structural Breaks and Predictive Regression Models of Aggregate U.S. Stock Returns,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 2006), pp. 238-274

·        “The Out-of-Sample Forecasting Performance of Nonlinear Models of Real Exchange Rate Behavior” with Mark E. Wohar, International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 22, No. 2 (April-June 2006), pp. 341-361

·        “In-Sample vs. Out-of-Sample Tests of Stock Return Predictability in the Context of Data Mining,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 13, No. 2 (March 2006), pp. 231-247

 

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