Sub-Saharan African countries are exposed to spillovers from global financial variables, but the impact on economic activity is more significant in more financially developed economies. Generalized ...
In the heat of severe global macroeconomic volatility, monetary authorities in the developing world are faced with the challenge of identifying the sources of such volatilities in their countries.
This paper reviews recent advances in the specification and estimation of Bayesian Vector Autoregressive models (BVARs). After describing the Bayesian principle of estimation, we first present the ...
1. Difference Equations -- 2. Lag Operators -- 3. Stationary ARMA Processes -- 4. Forecasting -- 5. Maximum Likelihood Estimation -- 6. Spectral Analysis -- 7 ...