Research Papers

Note that some papers available for download are preliminary and subject to revision. Comments are welcome. GAUSS program files are available for most papers.

·        “Is Inflation an International Phenomenon?” with Christopher J. Neely
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2008-025A
Slides for a West Virginia University Department of Economics Seminar (.pdf)
(Technical Appendix coming soon.)

·        “Real Interest Rate Persistence: Evidence and Implications,” with Christopher J. Neely
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2008-018-A
Outline of “Real Interest Rate Persistence: Evidence and Implications” (.pdf)

·        “Diversification Also Works for Forecasting the Equity Premium: Consistently Outperforming the Historical Average,” with Jack K. Strauss and Guofu Zhou
Paper (.pdf) (This is a substantially revised version of our earlier paper, “Out-of-Sample Equity Premium Prediction: Consistently Beating the Historical Average.”)

·        Slides for a presentation to the Board of Directors of Vantage Credit Union, June 2008 (.pdf)

·        “Differences in Housing Price Forecastability Across U.S. States,” with Jack K. Strauss, revise and resubmit to the International Journal of Forecasting
Paper (.pdf)

·        “States and the Business Cycle,” with Michael T. Owyang and Howard J. Wall, revise and resubmit to the Journal of Urban Economics
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2007-050-A

·        “The Predictive Power of Output Gap Measures Generated by Nonlinear Models,” with Richard Luger
Slides for Midwest Econometrics Group Meetings, October 2007 (.pdf)

·        “Spurious Relationships in Panel Crime Regressions,” with Eric P. Baumer
Preliminary version of the paper (.pdf)
Slides for the Crime and Population Dynamics Summer Workshop, June 2007 (.pdf)

·        “Nonlinear Models, Trend-Cycle Decompositions, and Business Cycle Facts,” with Christian E. Weber
Slides for the Missouri Economics Conference, March 2007 (.pdf)
(Draft of paper coming soon.)

·        “Habit Formation, Heterogeneity, and Housing Wealth Effects Across U.S. States,” with Jack K. Strauss
Slides for the Missouri Economics Conference, March 2007 (.pdf)
(Draft of paper coming soon.)

·        “Forecasting Employment Growth in Individual U.S. States: An Analysis of Forecast Combining Methods,” with Jack K. Strauss
Slides for the Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, April 2006 (.pdf)
(Draft of paper coming soon.)

·        “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
Paper (.pdf)
GAUSS program files (.zip)
Data Appendix (.pdf)
Appendix Containing VAR Estimation Results (.pdf)

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

·        “Forecasting Stock Return Volatility in the Presence of Structural Breaks,” with Jack K. Strauss and Mark E. Wohar, in Forecasting in the Presence of Structural Breaks and Model Uncertainty, David E. Rapach and Mark E. Wohar (eds.), Vol. 3 of Frontiers of Economics and Globalization (May 2008), Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald, pp. 381-416
(GAUSS program files coming soon.)

·        “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
GAUSS program files (.zip)
Appendix of Additional Results (.pdf)

·        “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
Appendix of Additional Results (.pdf)

·        “Forecasting Real Housing Price Growth in the Eighth District States,” with Jack K. Strauss, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Regional Economic Development, Vol. 3, No. 2 (November 2007), pp. 33-42
Paper (.pdf)
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “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
GAUSS program files and additional results (.zip)

·        “The Long-Run Relationship Between Consumption and Housing Wealth in the Eighth District States,” with Jack K. Strauss, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Regional Economic Development, Vol. 2, No. 2 (October 2006), pp. 140-147
Paper (.pdf)

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

·        “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
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “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
GAUSS program files (.zip)
Additional Tables (.pdf)
Data Appendix (.pdf)

·        “Forecasting Employment Growth in Missouri with Many Potentially Relevant Predictors: An Analysis of Forecast Combining Methods,” with Jack K. Strauss, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis Regional Economic Development, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005), pp. 97-112
Paper (.pdf)

·        “Regime Changes in International Real Interest Rates: Are They a Monetary Phenomenon?” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 37, No. 5 (October 2005), pp. 887-906
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Valuation Ratios and Long-Horizon Stock Price Predictability,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 20, No. 3 (March-April 2005), pp. 327-344
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Macro Variables and International Stock Return Predictability,” with Mark E. Wohar and Jesper Rangvid, International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January-March 2005), pp. 137-166
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “The Persistence in International Real Interest Rates,” with Mark E. Wohar, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 339-346
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Financial Variables and the Simulated Out-of-Sample Forecastability of U.S. Output Growth Since 1985: An Encompassing Approach,” with Christian E. Weber, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 717-738
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Testing the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate Determination: A Closer Look at Panels,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 23, No. 6 (October 2004), pp. 841-865
(GAUSS program files coming soon.)

·        “Are Real Interest Rates Really Nonstationary? New Evidence from Tests with Good Size and Power,” with Christian E. Weber, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September 2004), pp. 409-430
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “International Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Inflation,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2003), pp. 23-48
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Testing the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate Determination: New Evidence From a Century of Data,” with Mark E. Wohar, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 58, No. 2 (December 2002), pp. 359-385
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “The Long-Run Relationship Between Inflation and Real Stock Prices,” Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 24, No. 3 (September 2002), pp. 331-351
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Are Real GDP Levels Nonstationary? Evidence from Panel Data Tests,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3 (January 2002), pp. 473-495
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Macro Shocks and Real Stock Prices,” Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 53, No. 1 (January/February 2001), pp. 5-26
GAUSS program files (.zip)

·        “Monetary Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Hysteresis: Evidence from the G-7 Countries,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May 2001), pp. 356-371

·        “Macro Shocks and Fluctuations,” Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January/February 1998), pp. 23-38

·        “Monetary Shocks and Relative Farm Prices: A Re-examination,” with Alan G. Isaac, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 79, No. 4 (November 1997), pp. 1332-1339

 

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