1. a What is the main difference between time series observations and cross sectional observations?
b.What is covariance stationarity of a time series?
c.What is mean stationarity? Do the following time series seem to be mean stationary? Justify your answer?
d.What is the economic meaning of the series: log(Apple Stock Pricet ) – log(Apple Stock Pricet-1 ) ? What is it commonly called?
e.What is the term in economics for the variable measured in (iii)
2.Consider the following model:
Yt = 0.7 – 0.5 et-1 + 0.7 et-2 + et
where et is normally distributed white noise with zero mean and variance 0.04.
a.Derive h-period ahead optimal forecasts and corresponding forecast intervals (90%) of Yt for h=1, 2, 3, and 4. Your information set contains information up to period t. Assume that
et = 0.5, et-1 = – 0.1, et-2 = – 0.2, et-3 = 0.7, and et-4 = 0.3
b.Derive the unconditional mean and variance of the Yt process. How do your point forecasts and forecast variances in a. above compare with these unconditional mean and variance?
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