Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85517 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 99-024/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Stylized facts show that the average growth rates of US per capitaconsumption and income differ in recession and expansion periods.Since a linear combination of such series does not have to be a constant meanprocess, standard cointegration analysis between the variables, toexamine the permanent income hypothesis, may not be valid. To model thechanging growth rates in both series, we introduce a multivariate Markov trendmodel, which allows for different growth rates in consumption and incomeduring expansions and recessions. The deviations from the multivariateMarkov trend are modelled by a vector autoregressive model. Bayes estimates ofthis model are obtained using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The empiricalresults suggest that there exist a cointegration relation between US percapita disposable income and consumption, after correction for amultivariate Markov trend.
Subjects: 
multivariate Markov trend
cointegration
MCMC
permanent income hypothesis
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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