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Dr. Matthew Higgins
Ph.D, University of Illinois, 1989
Associate Professor
5313, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5543
Email: Matthew.Higgins@wmich.edu
Web: http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~higgins
Areas of Interest:
Econometric Theory; Time Series Analysis; and Empirical Monetary Economics and Finance
Current Research: ARCH and GARCH models; Nonlinear time series; and Nonnested models

Selected Publications:

"Fractional cointegration analysis of EU convergence," (with Sonila Beliu), Applied Economics, August 2004.

"Exchange-Rate Uncertainity and Workers' Remittances", (with A. Hysenbegasi and S. Pozo), Applied Financial Economics, March 2004.

"Capacity Constraints and the Dynamics of Underwriting Profits", (with P. Thistle), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 38, 442-457, 2000.

"ARCH and Bilinearity as Competing Models for Nonlinear Dependence", (with A.K. Bera), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 15, 43-50, 1997.

"Random Coefficient Formulation of Conditional Heteroskedasticity and Augmented ARCH Models", (with A.K. Bera and S. Lee), Sankhya, Vol. 58, 199-220, 1996.

"A Monte Carlo Study of Tests for Nonnested Models Estimated by Generalized Methods of Moments", (with S. Arkonac), Communications in Statistics-Computation and Simulation, Vol. 24, 745-763, 1995.

"Computation of the GLS Estimator of a Model with Anticipated and Unanticipated Effects," Economic Letters, Vol. 45, 125-129, 1994.

"A Consistency Test for Rational Expectations Models," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 10, 53-60, 1994.

"A Survey of ARCH Models: Properties, Estimation and Testing," (with A. K. Bera), Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 7, 305-366, 1993. To be reprinted in Surveys in Econometrics, eds. L. Oxley, D. George, C. Roberts and S. Sayer (1995), Oxford, Basil Blackwell.

"MicroTSP Version 7.0: A Review," (with N. Ltaifa), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 7, 423-429, 1992.

"A Class of Nonlinear ARCH Models," (with A. K. Bera), International Economic Review, Vol. 33, 137-158, 1992.

"Interaction Between Autocorrelation and Conditional Heteroskedasticity: A Random-Coefficient Approach," (with A. K. Bera and S. Lee), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 10, 133-142, 1992.

"Correlation Between Structural and Forecast Errors in Expectations Models," Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section, 1992, 22-26.

"Test for Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Time Series Models," (with A. K. Bera), Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol. 13, 501-519, 1992.

"A Joint Test for ARCH and Bilinearity in the Regression Model," (with A. K. Bera), Econometric Reviews, 171-181, 1989.

Working Papers :

"Generalized Least Squares amd Multiple-Length Regression". (WMU Economics Department Working Paper).

"Testing the Inflation Level-Uncertainty Tradeoff with ARCH Models". (WMU Economics Department Working Paper).

 

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