Charles R. Nelson

Dept of Economics

Professor of Economics

Box 353330

Seattle, WA 98195-3330

United States

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Scholarly Papers (25)

1.

Why are Stock Returns and Volatility Negatively Correlated?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Sep 2004
Jinho Bae, Chang-Jin Kim and Charles R. Nelson
Konkuk University, Dept. of Economics, University of Washington and Dept of Economics
Downloads 754 (54,328)
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Asymmetric volatility, volatility reedback, leverage effect, regime switching, GARCH

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Testing for Mean Reversion in Heteroskedastic Data Ii: Autoregression Tests Based on Gibbs-Sampling-Augmented Randomization

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Mar 1999
Chang-Jin Kim and Charles R. Nelson
Dept. of Economics, University of Washington and Dept of Economics
Downloads 384 (124,990)
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Friedman's Plucking Model of Business Fluctuations: Tests and Estimates of Permanent and Transitory Components

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Apr 1999
Chang-Jin Kim and Charles R. Nelson
Dept. of Economics, University of Washington and Dept of Economics
Downloads 333 (146,224)
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A Bayesian Approach to Testing for Markov Switching in Univariate and Dynamic Factor Models

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Mar 1999
Chang-Jin Kim and Charles R. Nelson
Dept. of Economics, University of Washington and Dept of Economics
Downloads 324 (150,538)
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Markov Regime-Switching and Unit Root Tests

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Dec 2000
Charles R. Nelson, Jeremy Piger and Eric Zivot
Dept of Economics, University of Oregon - Department of Economics and University of Washington - Department of Economics
Downloads 290 (169,754)
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stochastic trends, deterministic trends, structural change, heteroskedasticity, unit root tests, and markov switching

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The Uncertain Trend in U.S. GDP

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Jun 1997
Charles R. Nelson and Christian J. Murray
Dept of Economics and University of Houston - Department of Economics
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A Test for Structural Change in Markov-Switching Models: Has the U.S. Economy Become More Stable?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Mar 1999
Chang-Jin Kim and Charles R. Nelson
Dept. of Economics, University of Washington and Dept of Economics
Downloads 276 (178,089)
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Spurious Inference in the Garch(1,1) Model When it is Weakly Identified

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Jun 2006
Jun Ma, Charles R. Nelson and Richard Startz
Northeastern University - Department of Economics, Dept of Economics and UCSB
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weak identification, GARCH, conditional heteroskedasticity

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Estimation of a Forward-Looking Monetary Policy Rule: A Time-Varying Parameter Model Using Ex-Post Data

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Oct 2004
Chang-Jin Kim and Charles R. Nelson
Dept. of Economics, University of Washington and Dept of Economics
Downloads 224 (218,634)
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Endogeneity, Forward-Looking Monetary Policy, Heteroscedasticity, Nonlinearity, Time-Varying Parameter Model

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Mean Reversion in Stock Prices? a Reappraisal of the Empirical Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w2795
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022
Myung Jig Kim, Charles R. Nelson and Richard Startz
Hanyang University, Dept of Economics and UCSB
Downloads 202 (240,565)
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Earnings Growth and the Bull Market of the 1990s: Is There a Case for Rational Exuberance?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Oct 2004
Jinho Bae and Charles R. Nelson
Konkuk University and Dept of Economics
Downloads 173 (276,164)
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Irrational exuberance, New Economy, Earnings growth, Bull market

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A Markov Model of Heteroskedasticity, Risk, and Learning in the Stock Market

NBER Working Paper No. w2818
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2022
Christopher M. Turner, Richard Startz and Charles R. Nelson
Black Rock Financial Management, Inc., UCSB and Dept of Economics
Downloads 118 (374,102)
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The Less Volatile U.S. Economy: A Bayesian Investigation of Timing, Breadth and Potential Explanations

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Aug 2001
Chang-Jin Kim, Charles R. Nelson and Jeremy Piger
Dept. of Economics, University of Washington, Dept of Economics and University of Oregon - Department of Economics
Downloads 115 (381,050)
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volatility reduction, stabilization, structural break, Bayesian

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Parsimoneous Modeling of Yield Curves for U.S. Treasury Bills

NBER Working Paper No. w1594
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Charles R. Nelson and Andrew F. Siegel
Dept of Economics and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 109 (395,877)
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Valid Inference for a Class of Models Where Standard Inference Performs Poorly; Including Nonlinear Regression, ARMA, GARCH, and Unobserved Components

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Jun Ma and Charles R. Nelson
Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Dept of Economics
Downloads 104 (409,244)
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ARMA, Unobserved Components, State Space, GARCH, Zero-Information-Limit-Condition

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The Zero-Information-Limit Condition and Spurious Inference in Weakly Identified Models

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Feb 2004
Charles R. Nelson and Richard Startz
Dept of Economics and UCSB
Downloads 80 (483,584)
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Weak identification, hypothesis testing

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Long-Term Behavior of Yield Curves

NBER Working Paper No. w1789
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2022
Charles R. Nelson and Andrew F. Siegel
Dept of Economics and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
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Pitfalls in the Use of Time as an Explanatory Variable in Regression

NBER Working Paper No. t0030
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Charles R. Nelson and Heejoon Kang
Dept of Economics and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy
Downloads 69 (525,226)

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Predictable Stock Returns: Reality or Statistical Illusion?

NBER Working Paper No. w3297
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 31 May 2001 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022
Charles R. Nelson and Myung Jig Kim
Dept of Economics and Hanyang University
Downloads 52 (602,893)
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The Time-Varying-Parameter Model as an Alternative to Arch for Modeling Changing Conditional Variance: the Case of Lucas Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. t0070
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2022
Charles R. Nelson and Chang-Jin Kim
Dept of Economics and Dept. of Economics, University of Washington
Downloads 51 (608,086)
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Spurious Trend and Cycle in the State Space Decomposition of a Time Series with a Unit Root

NBER Working Paper No. t0063
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022
Charles R. Nelson
Dept of Economics
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The Distribution of the Instrumental Variables Estimator and its T-Ratiowhen the Instrument is a Poor One

NBER Working Paper No. t0069
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2023
Charles R. Nelson and Richard Startz
Dept of Economics and UCSB
Downloads 44 (646,362)
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Implicit Estimates of Natural, Trend, and Cyclical Components of Real Gnp

NBER Working Paper No. w2253
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2022
Charles R. Nelson
Dept of Economics
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A Reappraisal of Recent Tests of the Permanent Income Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. w1687
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2022
Charles R. Nelson
Dept of Economics
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Some Further Results on the Exact Small Sample Properties of the Instrumental Variable Estimator

NBER Working Paper No. t0068
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2023
Charles R. Nelson and Richard Startz
Dept of Economics and UCSB
Downloads 28 (751,489)
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