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: Which criticism of Dickey-Fuller (DF) -type tests is addressed by stationarity tests, such as the KPSS test?

A. DF tests have low power to reject the null hypothesis of a unit root, particularly in small samples

B.  DF tests are always over-sized

C. DF tests do not allow the researcher to test hypotheses about the cointegrating vector

D. DF tests can only find at most one cointegrating relationship

Câu 2: 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 3: If there are three variables that are being tested for cointegration, what is the maximum number of linearly independent cointegrating relationships that there could be?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

Câu 4: A process, xt, which has a constant mean and variance, and zero autocovariance for all non-zero lags is best described as:

A. A white noise process

B. A covariance stationary process

C. An autocorrelated process

D. A moving average process

Câu 5: What is the optimal three-step ahead forecast from the AR(2) model given in question 14?

A. -0.1

B. 0.27

C. -0.34

D. -0.31

Câu 6: 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