Working Paper
Contemporaneous threshold autoregressive models: estimation, testing and forecasting
Spagnolo, Fabio; Dueker, Michael J.; Sola, Martin (2006)
This paper proposes a contemporaneous smooth transition threshold autoregressive model (C-STAR) as a modification of the smooth transition threshold autoregressive model surveyed in Tersvirta (1998), in which the regime weights depend on the ex ante probability that a latent regime-specific variable will exceed a threshold value. We argue that the contemporaneous model is well-suited to rational expectations applications (and pricing exercises), in that it does not require the initial regimes to be predetermined. We investigate the properties of the model and evaluate its finite-sample ...
Working Papers , Paper 2003-024

Working Paper
Multivariate contemporaneous threshold autoregressive models
Dueker, Michael J.; Psaradakis, Zacharias; Sola, Martin; Spagnolo, Fabio (2007)
In this paper we propose a contemporaneous threshold multivariate smooth transition autoregressive (C-MSTAR) model in which the regime weights depend on the ex ante probabilities that latent regime-specific variables exceed certain threshold values. The model is a multivariate generalization of the contemporaneous threshold autoregressive model introduced by Dueker et al. (2007). A key feature of the model is that the transition function depends on all the parameters of the model as well as on the data. The stability and distributional properties of the proposed model are investigated. The ...
Working Papers , Paper 2007-019