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Econometrics, Volume 13, Issue 1 (March 2025) – 12 articles

Cover Story (view full-size image): This paper introduces an innovative hybrid forecasting framework that integrates the Generalized Autoregressive Moving Average (GARMA) model with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks. Designed to effectively capture both linear and non-linear long-memory dynamics, the proposed GARMA-LSTM approach consistently surpasses conventional forecasting techniques when handling complex time series exhibiting cyclical, seasonal, and persistent behaviors. Extensive simulation studies combined with rigorous empirical analyses validate significant improvements in forecast accuracy and robustness. By leveraging the complementary strengths of traditional statistical modeling and advanced deep learning methods, the hybrid GARMA-LSTM model provides a powerful and reliable forecasting solution, broadly applicable across diverse domains with challenging temporal patterns. View this paper
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Dynamic Interaction Between Microfinance and Household Well-Being: Evidence from the Microcredit Progressive Model for Sustainable Development
by Ahmad Alqatan, Najoua Talbi, Hasan Behbehani, Samira Ben Belgacem, Muhammad Arslan and Wafaa Sbeiti
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010012 - 6 Mar 2025
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Microfinance aims to promote financial inclusion among underprivileged individuals, particularly through progressive microcredit, which enables borrowers to access increasing loan amounts over time. This study examines the conditions under which progressive microcredit positively impacts both small business performance and household well-being, considering borrower [...] Read more.
Microfinance aims to promote financial inclusion among underprivileged individuals, particularly through progressive microcredit, which enables borrowers to access increasing loan amounts over time. This study examines the conditions under which progressive microcredit positively impacts both small business performance and household well-being, considering borrower characteristics and business activity conditions. Using a dataset of 278 households across 110 administrative sectors in Tunisia from 2012 to 2020, this study employs two-stage least squares (2SLS) and three-stage least squares (3SLS) econometric techniques to estimate simultaneous equation models. The findings reveal that the cumulative amount of progressive microcredit received is mainly determined by project capital, suggesting that businesses with higher capital requirements tend to secure larger loans over successive cycles. Household well-being is significantly influenced by progressive microcredit, household income, net business benefit, rate of development index, and homeownership. Meanwhile, business profitability is driven by project capital and total fixed assets, highlighting the long-term impact of microcredit. The results highlight the critical role of microfinance in enabling small-scale entrepreneurs to expand their businesses while simultaneously improving household financial security. By promoting sustainable income generation, progressive microcredit serves as a key instrument in poverty alleviation and economic stability. This study underscores the necessity for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to tailor their lending strategies, ensuring optimal loan progression that balances business expansion with financial sustainability. Additionally, policymakers should refine microcredit frameworks to enhance accessibility and long-term economic benefits for low-income borrowers. Overall, these insights contribute to the broader discourse on financial inclusion and sustainable development, emphasizing that progressive microcredit not only facilitates entrepreneurship, but also serves as a driver of socioeconomic mobility. Full article
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Real Option Valuation of an Emerging Renewable Technology Design in Wave Energy Conversion
by James A. DiLellio, John C. Butler, Igor Rizaev, Wanan Sheng and George Aggidis
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010011 - 4 Mar 2025
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The untapped potential of wave energy offers another alternative to diversifying renewable energy sources and addressing climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. However, development costs to mature the technology remain significant hurdles to adoption at scale and the technology often must compete [...] Read more.
The untapped potential of wave energy offers another alternative to diversifying renewable energy sources and addressing climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. However, development costs to mature the technology remain significant hurdles to adoption at scale and the technology often must compete against other marine energy renewables such as offshore wind. Here, we conduct a real option valuation that includes the uncertain market price of wholesale electricity and managerial flexibility expressed in determining future optimal decisions. We demonstrate the probability that the project’s embedded compound real option value can turn a negative net present value wave energy project to a positive expected value. This change in investment decision uses decision tree analysis, where real options are developed as decision nodes, and models the uncertainty as a risk-neutral stochastic process using chance nodes. We also show how our results are analogous to a financial out-of-the-money call option. Our results highlight the distribution of outcomes and the benefit of a staged long-term investment in wave energy systems to better understand and manage project risk, recognizing that these probabilistic results are subject to the ongoing evolution of wholesale electricity prices and the stochastic process models used here to capture their future dynamics. Lastly, we show that the near-term optimal decision is to continue to fund ongoing development of a reference architecture to a higher technology readiness level to maintain the long-term option to deploy such a renewable energy system through private investment or private–public partnerships. Full article
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A Study of Economic and Social Preferences in Energy-Saving Behavior Using a Structural Equation Modeling Approach: The Case of Romania
by Cristian Busu, Mihail Busu, Stelian Grasu, Ilona Skačkauskienė and Luis Miguel Fonseca
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010010 - 24 Feb 2025
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Examining the energy consumer behavioral model is critical for national governments and academia. This endeavor seeks to uncover effective solutions amid the energy crisis and climate change challenges. This article delves into legislative developments within the energy sector, European Commission recommendations for reducing [...] Read more.
Examining the energy consumer behavioral model is critical for national governments and academia. This endeavor seeks to uncover effective solutions amid the energy crisis and climate change challenges. This article delves into legislative developments within the energy sector, European Commission recommendations for reducing energy consumption, and existing constraints impacting individual consumers. By scrutinizing the relevant literature, we aimed to identify and analyze factors that can enhance individual benefits derived from energy savings. Then, a comprehensive set of variables was formulated to model the final consumers’ behavior. Data collection involved administering questionnaires to individual consumers, consumer associations, and energy micro-enterprises in Romania. The gathered data were meticulously analyzed using the Smart-Pls 4 statistical software. Building upon insights from specialized literature, this paper pinpoints the behavioral determinants influencing the reduction in energy consumption. These determinants serve as independent variables shaping the voluntary adoption of measures in lifestyle and behavior among various types of energy users. This study’s findings validate the assumptions presented in this article, highlighting that a reduction in energy consumption is a direct and intrinsic outcome achieved by cumulatively addressing several factors. These factors encompass investments in the energy sector, budget allocation for energy consumption expenditure, adherence to social behavior norms, access to pertinent information about the consequences of the energy crisis, and individual responsibility. Notably, the perception of energy-saving opportunities emerges as a mediator between the independent variables and energy savings with a significant effect. This aspect, developed for the first time in this article, draws inspiration from the prospect theory introduced by Kahneman and Tversky. Full article
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Investigating Some Issues Relating to Regime Matching
by Anthony D. Hall and Adrian R. Pagan
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010009 - 21 Feb 2025
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Markov switching models are a common tool used in many disciplines as well as in Economics, and estimation methods are available in many software packages. Estimated models are commonly used for allocating observations to regimes. This allocation is usually done using a rule [...] Read more.
Markov switching models are a common tool used in many disciplines as well as in Economics, and estimation methods are available in many software packages. Estimated models are commonly used for allocating observations to regimes. This allocation is usually done using a rule based on the estimated smoothed probabilities, such as, in the two regime case, when it exceeds the threshold of 0.5. The accuracy of the regime matching is often measured by the concordance index. Can regime matching be improved by using other rules? By replicating a number of published two-and three- regime studies and the use of simulation methods, it demonstrates that other rules can improve on the performance of the rule based on the threshold of 0.5. Using simulated models we extend the analysis of a single series to investigate, and demonstrate the efficacy of Markov switching models identifying a common factor in multiple time series. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Macroeconometric Modeling and Time Series Analysis)
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Comparative Analysis of VAR and SVAR Models in Assessing Oil Price Shocks and Exchange Rate Transmission to Consumer Prices in South Africa
by Luyanda Majenge, Sakhile Mpungose and Simiso Msomi
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010008 - 20 Feb 2025
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This study compared standard VAR, SVAR with short-run restrictions, and SVAR with long-run restrictions to investigate the effects of oil price shocks and the foreign exchange rate (ZAR/USD) on consumer prices in South Africa after the 2008 financial crisis. The standard VAR model [...] Read more.
This study compared standard VAR, SVAR with short-run restrictions, and SVAR with long-run restrictions to investigate the effects of oil price shocks and the foreign exchange rate (ZAR/USD) on consumer prices in South Africa after the 2008 financial crisis. The standard VAR model revealed that consumer prices responded positively to oil price shocks in the short term, whereas the foreign exchange rate (ZAR/USD) revealed a fluctuating currency over time. That is, the South African rand (ZAR) initially appreciated against the US dollar (USD) in response to oil price shocks (periods 1:7), followed by a depreciation in periods 8:12. Imposing short-run restrictions on the SVAR model revealed that the foreign exchange rate (ZAR/USD) reacted to oil price shocks in a manner similar to the VAR model, with ZAR appreciating during the initial periods (1:7) and subsequently depreciating in the later periods (8:12). Consumer prices responded positively to oil price shocks, causing consumer prices to increase in the short run, which is consistent with the VAR findings. However, imposing long-run restrictions on our SVAR model yielded results that contrasted with those obtained under short-run restrictions and the standard VAR model. That is, oil price shocks had long-lasting effects on the foreign exchange rate, resulting in the depreciation of ZAR relative to USD over time. Additionally, oil price shocks reduced consumer prices, resulting in a deflationary effect in the long run. This study concluded that South Africa’s position as a net oil importer with a floating exchange rate renders the country vulnerable to short-term external shocks. Nonetheless, in the long term, the results indicated that the economy tends to adapt to oil price shocks over time. Full article
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Conditional β-Convergence in APEC Economies, 1960–2020: Empirical Evidence from the Pooled Mean Group Estimator
by César Lenin Navarro-Chávez, Julio César Morán-Figueroa and Francisco Javier Ayvar-Campos
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010007 - 18 Feb 2025
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The aim of this research is to analyze the impact of conditional variables—physical capital, population, and Total Factor Productivity (TFP)—on the economic convergence of the member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum over the period 1960–2020. This study employs a causal [...] Read more.
The aim of this research is to analyze the impact of conditional variables—physical capital, population, and Total Factor Productivity (TFP)—on the economic convergence of the member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum over the period 1960–2020. This study employs a causal and correlational methodological approach, utilizing the pooled mean group (PMG) estimator within a non-experimental design framework for quantitative analysis. This methodology facilitates the estimation of conditional β-convergence, ensuring the statistical significance of estimates even in heterogeneous data panels with variables of integration order I(0) and I(1). The results indicate that physical capital, population growth, and TFP have significantly influenced the growth rates of APEC economies, contributing to economic convergence within the region during the 1960–2020 period. This study offers significant contributions by analyzing the 21 APEC economies over a 60-year period, utilizing a PMG model to estimate conditional β-convergence, and conducting comprehensive evaluations of short- and long-term trends. Consequently, the research recommends implementing policies that prioritize innovation, strengthen capital, create employment opportunities, and enhance productivity to reduce inequalities and foster sustainable growth across APEC economies. Full article
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Data-Based Parametrization for Affine GARCH Models Across Multiple Time Scales—Roughness Implications
by Marcos Escobar-Anel, Sebastian Ferrando, Fuyu Li and Ke Xu
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010006 - 12 Feb 2025
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This paper revisits the topic of time-scale parameterizations of the Heston–Nandi GARCH (1,1) model to create a new, theoretically valid setting compatible with real financial data. We first estimate parameters using three US market indices and six frequencies to let data reveal the [...] Read more.
This paper revisits the topic of time-scale parameterizations of the Heston–Nandi GARCH (1,1) model to create a new, theoretically valid setting compatible with real financial data. We first estimate parameters using three US market indices and six frequencies to let data reveal the correct, data-implied, time-scale parameterizations. We compared the data-implied parametrization to two popular candidates in the literature, demonstrating structurally different continuous-time limits, i.e., the data favor fractional Brownian motion (fBM)—instead of the standard Brownian motion (BM)-based parametrization. We then propose a theoretically flexible time-scale parameterization compatible with this fBM behavior. In this context, a fractional derivative analysis of our empirically based parametrization is performed, confirming an anomalous diffusion in the continuous-time limit. Such a finding is yet another endorsement of the recent and popular stylized fact known as rough volatility. Full article
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Application of Fuzzy Discount Factors in Behavioural Decision-Making for Financial Market Modelling
by Joanna Siwek and Patryk Żywica
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010005 - 26 Jan 2025
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This paper presents an innovative approach to financial market modelling by integrating fuzzy discount factors into the decision-making process, thereby reflecting the complexities of human behaviour. Traditional financial models often fail to account for market dynamics’ psychological factors. The proposed method utilizes fuzzy [...] Read more.
This paper presents an innovative approach to financial market modelling by integrating fuzzy discount factors into the decision-making process, thereby reflecting the complexities of human behaviour. Traditional financial models often fail to account for market dynamics’ psychological factors. The proposed method utilizes fuzzy logic to encapsulate the uncertainty and subjective judgment inherent in financial decisions. By representing financial variables as fuzzy numbers, the model better simulates the way humans assess information and make decisions under uncertainty. The incorporation of fuzzy discount factors marks a significant shift from deterministic to a more realistic representation of financial markets, suitable for practical application. This methodology offers a nuanced investment strategy that balances theoretical rigour with real-world applicability, appealing to a broad spectrum of investors. The aim of the following paper is to introduce an alternative to price modelling with the use of fuzzy return rates, which results in some errors in the mathematical model. The solution has the form of introducing fuzzy discount factors (FDFs) that retain the advantages of the fuzzy approach (e.g., encompassing subjectivity and imprecision) while preserving the shape of the fuzzy number modelling a price. Full article
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An Economic Theory with a Formal-Econometric Test of Its Empirical Relevance
by Bernt Petter Stigum
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010004 - 16 Jan 2025
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The paper contains five parts—a theory about entrepreneurial choice under uncertainty, a formal econometric structure for a test, the test, an appraisal of the test, and a description of the data generating process. Here, an entrepreneur is an individual who manages a firm [...] Read more.
The paper contains five parts—a theory about entrepreneurial choice under uncertainty, a formal econometric structure for a test, the test, an appraisal of the test, and a description of the data generating process. Here, an entrepreneur is an individual who manages a firm that produces one commodity with labor, an intermediate good, and capital. He pays dividends to shareholders, invests in bonds and capital, and has an n-period planning horizon. Conditioned on the values of current-period prices, the entrepreneur aims to maximize the expected value of a utility function that varies with the dividends he pays each period and with his firm’s balance sheet variables at the end of the planning horizon. The test comprises a family of trials of theorems that I derive from the axioms of the theory part of the formal econometric structure. In the test, the theorems are appraised for their empirical relevance in an empirical context, where each one of a random sample of four hundred entrepreneurs has chosen the first-period part of his optimal n-period expenditure plan. My formal econometric arguments demonstrate that the theorems pass all the trials. At the end, I show that my formal econometric results imply that the theory is empirically relevant. Full article
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Optimal Time Series Forecasting Through the GARMA Model
by Adel Hassan A. Gadhi, Shelton Peiris, David E. Allen and Richard Hunt
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010003 - 8 Jan 2025
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This paper examines the use of machine learning methods in modeling and forecasting time series with long memory through GARMA. By employing rigorous model selection criteria through simulation study, we find that the hybrid GARMA-LSTM model outperforms traditional approaches in forecasting long-memory time [...] Read more.
This paper examines the use of machine learning methods in modeling and forecasting time series with long memory through GARMA. By employing rigorous model selection criteria through simulation study, we find that the hybrid GARMA-LSTM model outperforms traditional approaches in forecasting long-memory time series. This characteristic is confirmed using popular datasets such as sunspot data and Australian beer production data. This approach provides a robust framework for accurate and reliable forecasting in long-memory time series. Additionally, we compare the GARMA-LSTM model with other implemented models, such as GARMA, TBATS, ARIMA, and ANN, highlighting its ability to address both long-memory and non-linear dynamics. Finally, we discuss the representativeness of the datasets selected and the adaptability of the proposed hybrid model to various time series scenarios. Full article
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Forecasting Half-Hourly Electricity Prices Using a Mixed-Frequency Structural VAR Framework
by Gaurav Kapoor, Nuttanan Wichitaksorn, Mengheng Li and Wenjun Zhang
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010002 - 8 Jan 2025
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Electricity price forecasting has been a topic of significant interest since the deregulation of electricity markets worldwide. The New Zealand electricity market is run primarily on renewable fuels, and so weather metrics have a significant impact on electricity price and volatility. In this [...] Read more.
Electricity price forecasting has been a topic of significant interest since the deregulation of electricity markets worldwide. The New Zealand electricity market is run primarily on renewable fuels, and so weather metrics have a significant impact on electricity price and volatility. In this paper, we employ a mixed-frequency vector autoregression (MF-VAR) framework where we propose a VAR specification to the reverse unrestricted mixed-data sampling (RU-MIDAS) model, called RU-MIDAS-VAR, to provide point forecasts of half-hourly electricity prices using several weather variables and electricity demand. A key focus of this study is the use of variational Bayes as an estimation technique and its comparison with other well-known Bayesian estimation methods. We separate forecasts for peak and off-peak periods in a day since we are primarily concerned with forecasts for peak periods. Our forecasts, which include peak and off-peak data, show that weather variables and demand as regressors can replicate some key characteristics of electricity prices. We also find the MF-VAR and RU-MIDAS-VAR models achieve similar forecast results. Using the LASSO, adaptive LASSO, and random subspace regression as dimension-reduction and variable selection methods helps to improve forecasts where random subspace methods perform well for large parameter sets while the LASSO significantly improves our forecasting results in all scenarios. Full article
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Relationship Between Coefficients in Parametric Survival Models for Exponentially Distributed Survival Time—Registered Unemployment in Poland
by Beata Bieszk-Stolorz
Econometrics 2025, 13(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics13010001 - 2 Jan 2025
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Survival analysis is a popular research tool in medicine and demography. It has been used for many years to study the duration of socio-economic phenomena. The aim of this article is to evaluate the relationship between the coefficients of the proportional hazards model [...] Read more.
Survival analysis is a popular research tool in medicine and demography. It has been used for many years to study the duration of socio-economic phenomena. The aim of this article is to evaluate the relationship between the coefficients of the proportional hazards model (PH) and the accelerated failure time model (AFT), assuming an exponential distribution of survival time. The coefficients of the PH and AFT exponential models have the same magnitude but have opposite signs. It follows that there is a symmetric relation between the coefficients. In the case of exponential PH and AFT models, there is a relation of equality between the parameters describing the quality and fit of the model, as well as between the standard errors of the parameters of both models. In this case also, we can talk about a symmetric relation. The exponential PH model is valid if the exponential AFT model is valid. The study showed that the intensity of starting work was higher in the case of men, people with work experience, people with higher education and young people. The job search time was longer for women, people with no work experience, and people aged 60+, but shorter for people with higher education. Full article
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