State Space and Unobserved Component Models

Andrew Harvey is Professor of Econometrics and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of the Econometric Analysis of Time Series (1981), Time Series Models (1981) and Forecasting: Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter (1989). Siem Jan Koopman is Professor of Econometrics at the Free University Amsterdam and Research Fellow of Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam. He has published in international journals and is co-author of Time Series Analysis by State Space Models (with J. Durbin, 2001). Neil Shephard is Professor of Economics and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University. He is the Editor of Econometrics Journal.

Part I. State Space Models: 1. Introduction to state space time series analysis James Durbin; 2. State structure, decision making and related issues Peter Whittle; 3. An introduction to particle filters Simon Maskell; Part II. Testing: 4. Frequence domain and wavelet-based estimation for long-memory signal plus noise models Katsuto Tanaka; 5. A goodness-of-fit test for AR (1) models and power against state-space alternatives T. W. Anderson and Michael A. Stephens; 6. Test for cycles Andrew C. Harvey; Part III. Bayesian Inference and Bootstrap: 7. Efficient Bayesian parameter estimation Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter; 8. Empirical Bayesian inference in a nonparametric regression model Gary Koop and Dale Poirier; 9. Resampling in state space models David S. Stoffer and Kent D. Wall; Part IV. Applications: 10. Measuring and forecasting financial variability using realised variance Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Bent Nielsen, Neil Shephard and Carla Ysusi; 11. Practical filtering for stochastic volatility models Jonathan R. Stroud, Nicholas G. Polson and Peter Müller; 12. On RegComponent time series models and their applications William R. Bell; 13. State space modeling in macroeconomics and finance using SsfPack in S+Finmetrics Eric Zivot, Jeffrey Wang and Siem Jan Koopman; 14. Finding genes in the human genome with hidden Markov models Richard Durbin.