Câu hỏi: 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 1:  Which one of the following best describes most series of asset prices?

A. An independently and identically distributed (iid, i.e. “completely random”) process

B. A random walk with drift

C. An explosive process

D. A deterministic trend process

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: If a residual series is negatively autocorrelated, which one of the following is the most likely value of the Durbin Watson statistic?

A. Close to zero

B. Close to two

C. Close to four

D. Close to one

Câu 5: Which of the following sets of characteristics would usually best describe an autoregressive process of order 3 (i.e. an AR(3))?

A. A slowly decaying acf, and a pacf with 3 significant spikes

B. A slowly decaying pacf and an acf with 3 significant spikes

C. A slowly decaying acf and pacf

D.  An acf and a pacf with 3 significant spikes

Câu 6: 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