John W. Galbraith

McGill University - Department of Economics

855 Sherbrooke St. W

Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7

Canada

Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organization (CIRANO)

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Montreal H3C 3J7, Quebec

Canada

  • McGill University - Department of Economics

  • Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organization (CIRANO)

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Consumers' Mobility, Expenditure and Online-Offline Substitution Response to COVID-19: Evidence from French Transaction Data

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 11 May 2020
David Bounie, Youssouf Camara and John W. Galbraith
Télécom Paris, Télécom Paris and McGill University - Department of Economics
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COVID-19, consumption expenditure, consumer mobility, online commerce, resiliency, transaction data

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Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices: Measuring Causality at Multiple Horizons

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2013s-39
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2015
Hui Jun Zhang, Jean-Marie Dufour and John W. Galbraith
University of Cambridge, McGill University and McGill University - Department of Economics
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multi-horizon causality, causality measures, commodity prices, exchange rates, stock prices, high-frequency data, spurious causality, financial markets

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A Generalized Asymmetric Student-t Distribution with Application to Financial Econometrics

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Nov 2009
John W. Galbraith and Dongming Zhu
McGill University - Department of Economics and Peking University
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asymmetric distribution, expected shortfall, maximum likelihood estimation

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Forecasting Expected Shortfall with a Generalized Asymmetric Student-T Distribution

CIRANO - Scientific Publications Paper No. 2009s-24
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Nov 2009
Dongming Zhu and John W. Galbraith
Peking University and McGill University - Department of Economics
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asymmetric distribution, expected shortfall, GARCH model

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Nowcasting GDP: Electronic Payments, Data Vintages and the Timing of Data Releases

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2013s-25
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Oct 2013
John W. Galbraith and Greg Tkacz
McGill University - Department of Economics and Saint Francis Xavier University - Economics
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GDP, nowcasting, electronic payments

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A Note on Monitoring Daily Economic Activity Via Electronic Transaction Data

CIRANO - Scientific Publications Paper No. 2009s-23
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Nov 2009
John W. Galbraith and Greg Tkacz
McGill University - Department of Economics and Bank of Canada
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debit cards, electronic transactions, monitoring

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Online Commerce, Inter-Regional Retail Trade, and the Evolution of Gravity Effects: Evidence from 20 Billion Transactions

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Aug 2020
David Bounie, Youssouf Camara and John W. Galbraith
Télécom Paris, Télécom Paris and McGill University - Department of Economics
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consumption expenditure, consumer mobility, gravity model, inter-regional trade, e-commerce

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Analyzing Economic Effects of Extreme Events Using Debit and Payments System Data

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2011s-70
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Nov 2011
John W. Galbraith and Greg Tkacz
McGill University - Department of Economics and Saint Francis Xavier University - Economics
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debit card transactions, macroeconomic monitoring, real-time data

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A Test of Singularity for Distribution Functions

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2011s-06
Posted: 01 Feb 2011
Victoria Zinde‐Walsh and John W. Galbraith
McGill University - Department of Economics and McGill University - Department of Economics
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generalized function, kernel density estimator, singularity

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Forecasting Financial Volatility with Combined QML and LAD-ARCH Estimators of the GARCH Model

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2013s-19
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Sep 2013
Liam Cheung and John W. Galbraith
McGill University and McGill University - Department of Economics
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QML and LAD-ARCH estimators, GARCH models

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Dimension Reduction and Model Averaging for Estimation of Artists’ Age-Valuation Profiles

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 209s-41
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Nov 2009
John W. Galbraith and Douglas J. Hodgson
McGill University - Department of Economics and University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) - Department of Economics
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Dimension reduction, factor-augmented model, model averaging

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Calibration and Resolution Diagnostics for Bank of England Density Forecasts

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2009s-36
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Nov 2009
John W. Galbraith and Simon van Norden
McGill University - Department of Economics and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
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calibration, density forecast, probability forecast, resolution

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The Robustness of Economic Activity to Destructive Events

CIRANO - Scientific Publications Paper No. 2009s-22
Posted: 12 Nov 2009
John W. Galbraith
McGill University - Department of Economics
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Entropy, redundancy, robust design

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The Calibration of Probabilistic Economic Forecasts

CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2008s-28
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jan 2009
John W. Galbraith and Simon van Norden
McGill University - Department of Economics and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
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calibration, probability forecast, real-time data, inflation, recession

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Partially Dimension-Reduced Regressions with Potentially Infinite-Dimensional Processes

CIRANO - Scientific Publication No. 2011s-57
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Oct 2011
John W. Galbraith and Victoria Zinde‐Walsh
McGill University - Department of Economics and McGill University - Department of Economics
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Dimension reduction, eigenvector, infinite-dimensional process, orthogonalized regressors

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Forecast Content and Content Horizons for Some Important Macroeconomic Time Series

Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 935-953, August 2007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Jul 2007
John W. Galbraith and Greg Tkacz
McGill University - Department of Economics and Bank of Canada
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Consumer Mobility, Online and On-site Commerce and the Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity: Evidence from 20 Billion Transactions

CIRANO Working Paper 2021S-17
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Apr 2021
David Bounie, Youssouf Camara and John W. Galbraith
Télécom Paris, Télécom Paris and McGill University - Department of Economics
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Consumption Expenditure, Consumer Mobility, Inter-Regional Trade, Ecommerce

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Simple and Reliable Estimators of Coefficients of Interest in a Model With High-Dimensional Confounding Effects

Journal of Econometrics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Jul 2020
John W. Galbraith and Victoria Zinde‐Walsh
McGill University - Department of Economics and McGill University - Department of Economics
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confounding, high-dimensional data, principal components, subspace consistency, treatment effect, wide data

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Consumption Dynamics in the COVID Crisis: Real Time Insights from French Transaction & Bank Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15474
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Dec 2020
Camille Landais, David Bounie, Youssouf Camara, Etienne Fize, John W. Galbraith, Chloe Lavest, Tatiana Pazem and Baptiste Savatier
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics, Télécom Paris, Télécom Paris, Sciences Po Department of Economics, McGill University - Department of Economics, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - National School for Statistical and Economic Administration (ENSAE), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics and Conseil Analyse Economique
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Circuit Breakers and the Tail Index of Equity Returns

Journal of Financial Econometrics, Vol. 2, pp. 109-129, 2004
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
John W. Galbraith and Serguei Zernov
McGill University - Department of Economics and McGill University

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circuit breaker, structural change tests, tail index