Câu hỏi: If a Johansen “max” test for a null hypothesis of 1 cointegrating vectors is applied to a system containing 4 variables is conducted, which eigenvalues would be used in the test?

A. The largest 1

B. The Second largest

C. The Second smallest

D. The smallest

Câu 1: If a series, yt, follows a random walk (with no drift), what is the optimal 1-step ahead forecast for y?

A. The current value of y

B. Zero

C. The historical unweighted average of y

D. An exponentially weighted average of previous values of y

Câu 2: If the number of non-zero eigenvalues of the pi matrix under a Johansen test is 2, this implies that

A. There are 2 linearly independent cointegrating vectors

B. There are at most 2 linearly independent cointegrating vectors

C. There are 3 variables in the system

D. There are at least 2 linearly independent cointegrating vectors

Câu 3: If a series, yt, follows a random walk (with no drift), what is the optimal 1-step ahead forecast for y?

A. The current value of y

B. Zero

C. The historical unweighted average of y

D. An exponentially weighted average of previous values of y

Câu 4: If a series, yt, follows a random walk (with no drift), what is the optimal 1-step ahead forecast for y?

A. The current value of y

B. Zero

C. The historical unweighted average of y

D. An exponentially weighted average of previous values of y

Câu 5: A normal distribution has coefficients of skewness and excess kurtosis which are respectively:

A. 0 and 0

B. 0 and 3

C. 3 and 0

D. Will vary from one normal distribution to another

Câu 6: If a regression equation contains an irrelevant variable, the parameter estimates will be

A. Consistent and unbiased but inefficient

B. Consistent and asymptotically efficient but biased

C. Inconsistent

D. Consistent, unbiased and efficient