Esse trabalho apresenta um estudo da causalidade de Granger em Risco bivariado aplicado a séries temporais financeiras. Os eventos de risco, no caso de séries financeiras, estão relacionados com a avaliação do Valor em Risco das posições em ativos. Para isso, os modelos CaViaR, que fazem parte do grupo de modelos de Regressão Quantílica, foram utilizado para identificação desses eventos. Foram expostos os conceitos principais envolvidos da modelagem, assim como as definições necessárias para entendê-las. Através da análise da causalide de Granger em risco entre duas séries, podemos investigar se uma delas é capaz de prever a ocorrência de um valor extremo da outra. Foi realizada a análise de causalidade de Granger usual somente para como comparativo. / Quantile Regression, Value at Risk, CAViaR Model, Granger Causality, Granger Causality in Risk

[pt] O presente artigo tem como objetivo estudar a relação entre os retornos de índice de mercado de ações e taxas de câmbio de seis países da América Latina. De acordo com a abordagem do portfólio, ambas as variáveis devem ser negativamente correlacionadas. Tendo em vista que a regressão linear capta a relação linear média, não apresentando resultados satisfatórios, uma regressão quantílica foi usada para verificar essa relação em diferentes condições de mercado. Os resultados evidenciam um padrão no mercado latino americano, na qual a relação negativa entre as variáveis estudadas é mais pronunciada em momentos de forte desvalorização cambial. / [en] The present paper aims to study the relationship between stock price index returns and exchange rate of six Latin America countries. Acoording to the portfolio balance effect, both variables are supposed to be negatively correlated. Since the linear regression results are not satisfactory, a quantile regression is made to verify these relationship under different market conditions. The results show a pattern in these Latin American markets, where the negative relation between the studied variables is more pronunced when the exchange rate is very high.

A regressão quantílica para dados censurados é uma extensão dos modelos de regressão quantílica que, por levar em consideração a informação das observações censuradas na modelagem, e por apresentar propriedades bastante satisfatórias, pode ser vista como uma abordagem complementar às metodologias tradicionais em Análise de Sobrevivência, com a vantagem de permitir que as conclusões inferenciais sejam tomadas facilmente em relação aos tempos de sobrevivência propriamente ditos, e não em relação à taxa de riscos ou a uma função desse tempo. Além disso, em alguns casos, pode ser vista também como metodologia alternativa aos modelos clássicos quando as suposições destes são violadas ou quando os dados são heterogêneos. Apresentam-se nesta dissertação três técnicas para modelagem com regressão quantílica para dados censurados, que se diferenciam em relação às suas suposições e forma de estimação dos parâmetros. Um estudo de simulação para comparação das três técnicas para dados com distribuição normal, Weibull e log-logística é apresentado, em que são avaliados viés, erro padrão e erro quadrático médio. São discutidas as vantagens e desvantagens de cada uma das técnicas e uma delas é aplicada a um conjunto de dados reais do Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. / Censored quantile regression is an extension of quantile regression, and because it incorporates information from censored data in the modelling, and presents quite satisfactory properties, this class of models can be seen as a complementary approach to the traditional methods in Survival Analysis, with the advantage of allowing inferential conclusions to be made easily in terms of survival times rather than in terms of risk rates or as functions of survival time. Moreover, in some cases, it can also be seen as an alternative methodology to the classical models when their assumptions are violated or when modelling heterogeneity of the data. This dissertation presents three techniques for modelling censored quantile regression, which differ by assumptions and parameter estimation method. A simulation study designed with normal, Weibull and loglogistic distribution is presented to evaluate bias, standard error and mean square error. The advantages and disadvantages of each of the three techniques are then discussed and one of them is applied to a real data set from the Heart Institute of Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo.

Cette thèse s'intéresse à l'estimation de certaines mesures de risque d'une variable aléatoire réelle Y en présence d'une covariable X. Pour cela, on va considérer que le vecteur (X,Y) suit une loi elliptique. Dans un premier temps, on va s'intéresser aux quantiles de Y sachant X=x. On va alors tester d'abord un modèle de régression quantile assez répandu dans la littérature, pour lequel on obtient des résultats théoriques que l'on discutera. Face aux limites d'un tel modèle, en particulier pour des niveaux de quantile dits extrêmes, on proposera une nouvelle approche plus adaptée. Des résultats asymptotiques sont donnés, appuyés par une étude numérique puis par un exemple sur des données réelles. Dans un second chapitre, on s'intéressera à une autre mesure de risque appelée expectile. La structure du chapitre est sensiblement la même que celle du précédent, à savoir le test d'un modèle de régression inadapté aux expectiles extrêmes, pour lesquels on propose une approche méthodologique puis statistique. De plus, en mettant en évidence le lien entre les quantiles et expectiles extrêmes, on s'aperçoit que d'autres mesures de risque extrêmes sont étroitement liées aux quantiles extrêmes. On se concentrera sur deux familles appelées Lp-quantiles et mesures d'Haezendonck-Goovaerts, pour lesquelles on propose des estimateurs extrêmes. Une étude numérique est également fournie. Enfin, le dernier chapitre propose quelques pistes pour traiter le cas où la taille de la covariable X est grande. En constatant que nos estimateurs définis précédemment étaient moins performants dans ce cas, on s'inspire alors de quelques méthodes d'estimation en grande dimension pour proposer d'autres estimateurs. Une étude numérique permet d'avoir un aperçu de leurs performances / This PhD thesis focuses on the estimation of some risk measures for a real random variable Y with a covariate vector X. For that purpose, we will consider that the random vector (X,Y) is elliptically distributed. In a first time, we will deal with the quantiles of Y given X=x. We thus firstly investigate a quantile regression model, widespread in the litterature, for which we get theoretical results that we discuss. Indeed, such a model has some limitations, especially when the quantile level is said extreme. Therefore, we propose another more adapted approach. Asymptotic results are given, illustrated by a simulation study and a real data example.In a second chapter, we focus on another risk measure called expectile. The structure of the chapter is essentially the same as that of the previous one. Indeed, we first use a regression model that is not adapted to extreme expectiles, for which a methodological and statistical approach is proposed. Furthermore, highlighting the link between extreme quantiles and expectiles, we realize that other extreme risk measures are closely related to extreme quantiles. We will focus on two families called Lp-quantiles and Haezendonck-Goovaerts risk measures, for which we propose extreme estimators. A simulation study is also provided. Finally, the last chapter is devoted to the case where the size of the covariate vector X is tall. By noticing that our previous estimators perform poorly in this case, we rely on some high dimensional estimation methods to propose other estimators. A simulation study gives a visual overview of their performances

Wage inequality is a well-established phenomenon of contemporary labour markets both in the United States and Europe, frequently discussed in the contemporary labour economics literature. In the following paper, based on harmonised data of the EU-SILC database, a semi parametric technique of quantile regression has been applied together with the traditional OLS method in order to estimate the impact of returns to education on wages in the Visegrad Group countries, namely the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The main aim of the analysis is to examine the returns to education in these countries in order to observe differences appearing across them as well as within selected groups formed according to both the highest level of education attained and a number of years spent in a paid work (experience).

A regressão quantílica para dados censurados é uma extensão dos modelos de regressão quantílica que, por levar em consideração a informação das observações censuradas na modelagem, e por apresentar propriedades bastante satisfatórias, pode ser vista como uma abordagem complementar às metodologias tradicionais em Análise de Sobrevivência, com a vantagem de permitir que as conclusões inferenciais sejam tomadas facilmente em relação aos tempos de sobrevivência propriamente ditos, e não em relação à taxa de riscos ou a uma função desse tempo. Além disso, em alguns casos, pode ser vista também como metodologia alternativa aos modelos clássicos quando as suposições destes são violadas ou quando os dados são heterogêneos. Apresentam-se nesta dissertação três técnicas para modelagem com regressão quantílica para dados censurados, que se diferenciam em relação às suas suposições e forma de estimação dos parâmetros. Um estudo de simulação para comparação das três técnicas para dados com distribuição normal, Weibull e log-logística é apresentado, em que são avaliados viés, erro padrão e erro quadrático médio. São discutidas as vantagens e desvantagens de cada uma das técnicas e uma delas é aplicada a um conjunto de dados reais do Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. / Censored quantile regression is an extension of quantile regression, and because it incorporates information from censored data in the modelling, and presents quite satisfactory properties, this class of models can be seen as a complementary approach to the traditional methods in Survival Analysis, with the advantage of allowing inferential conclusions to be made easily in terms of survival times rather than in terms of risk rates or as functions of survival time. Moreover, in some cases, it can also be seen as an alternative methodology to the classical models when their assumptions are violated or when modelling heterogeneity of the data. This dissertation presents three techniques for modelling censored quantile regression, which differ by assumptions and parameter estimation method. A simulation study designed with normal, Weibull and loglogistic distribution is presented to evaluate bias, standard error and mean square error. The advantages and disadvantages of each of the three techniques are then discussed and one of them is applied to a real data set from the Heart Institute of Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo.

Generalized estimating equations (GEE) are popularly utilized for the marginal analysis of longitudinal data. In order to obtain consistent regression parameter estimates, these estimating equations must be unbiased. However, when certain types of time-dependent covariates are presented, these equations can be biased unless an independence working correlation structure is employed. Moreover, in this case regression parameter estimation can be very inefficient because not all valid moment conditions are incorporated within the corresponding estimating equations. Therefore, approaches using the generalized method of moments or quadratic inference functions have been proposed for utilizing all valid moment conditions. However, we have found that such methods will not always provide valid inference and can also be improved upon in terms of finite-sample regression parameter estimation. Therefore, we propose a modified GEE approach and a selection method that will both ensure the validity of inference and improve regression parameter estimation. In addition, these modified approaches assume the data analyst knows the type of time-dependent covariate, although this likely is not the case in practice. Whereas hypothesis testing has been used to determine covariate type, we propose a novel strategy to select a working covariate type in order to avoid potentially high type II error rates with these hypothesis testing procedures. Parameter estimates resulting from our proposed method are consistent and have overall improved mean squared error relative to hypothesis testing approaches. Finally, for some real-world examples the use of mean regression models may be sensitive to skewness and outliers in the data. Therefore, we extend our approaches from their use with marginal quantile regression to modeling the conditional quantiles of the response variable. Existing and proposed methods are compared in simulation studies and application examples.

In HIV/AIDS studies, viral load (the number of copies of HIV-1 RNA) and CD4 cell counts are important biomarkers of the severity of viral infection, disease progression, and treatment evaluation. Recently, joint models, which have the capability on the bias reduction and estimates' efficiency improvement, have been developed to assess the longitudinal process, survival process, and the relationship between them simultaneously. However, the majority of the joint models are based on mean regression, which concentrates only on the mean effect of outcome variable conditional on certain covariates. In fact, in HIV/AIDS research, the mean effect may not always be of interest. Additionally, if obvious outliers or heavy tails exist, mean regression model may lead to non-robust results. Moreover, due to some data features, like left-censoring caused by the limit of detection (LOD), covariates with measurement errors and skewness, analysis of such complicated longitudinal and survival data still poses many challenges. Ignoring these data features may result in biased inference. Compared to the mean regression model, quantile regression (QR) model belongs to a robust model family, which can give a full scan of covariate effect at different quantiles of the response, and may be more robust to extreme values. Also, QR is more flexible, since the distribution of the outcome does not need to be strictly specified as certain parametric assumptions. These advantages make QR be receiving increasing attention in diverse areas. To the best of our knowledge, few study focuses on the QR-based joint models and applies to longitudinal-survival data with multiple features. Thus, in this dissertation research, we firstly developed three QR-based joint models via Bayesian inferential approach, including: (i) QR-based nonlinear mixed-effects joint models for longitudinal-survival data with multiple features; (ii) QR-based partially linear mixed-effects joint models for longitudinal data with multiple features; (iii) QR-based partially linear mixed-effects joint models for longitudinal-survival data with multiple features. The proposed joint models are applied to analyze the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) data. Simulation studies are also implemented to assess the performance of the proposed methods under different scenarios. Although this is a biostatistical methodology study, some interesting clinical findings are also discovered.

This thesis is composed of three chapters which propose some novel approaches to model and forecast financial time series. The first chapter focuses on high frequency financial returns and proposes a quantile regression approach to model their intraday seasonality and dynamics. The second chapter deals with the problem of forecasting the yield curve including large datasets of macroeconomics information. While the last chapter addresses the issue of modelling the term structure of interest rates. The first chapter investigates the distribution of high frequency financial returns, with special emphasis on the intraday seasonality. Using quantile regression, I show the expansions and shrinks of the probability law through the day for three years of 15 minutes sampled stock returns. Returns are more dispersed and less concentrated around the median at the hours near the opening and closing. I provide intraday value at risk assessments and I show how it adapts to changes of dispersion over the day. The tests performed on the out-of-sample forecasts of the value at risk show that the model is able to provide good risk assessments and to outperform standard Gaussian and Student’s t GARCH models. The second chapter shows that macroeconomic indicators are helpful in forecasting the yield curve. I incorporate a large number of macroeconomic predictors within the Nelson and Siegel (1987) model for the yield curve, which can be cast in a common factor model representation. Rather than including macroeconomic variables as additional factors, I use them to extract the Nelson and Siegel factors. Estimation is performed by EM algorithm and Kalman filter using a data set composed by 17 yields and 118 macro variables. Results show that incorporating large macroeconomic information improves the accuracy of out-of-sample yield forecasts at medium and long horizons. The third chapter statistically tests whether the Nelson and Siegel (1987) yield curve model is arbitrage-free. Theoretically, the Nelson-Siegel model does not ensure the absence of arbitrage opportunities. Still, central banks and public wealth managers rely heavily on it. Using a non-parametric resampling technique and zero-coupon yield curve data from the US market, I find that the no-arbitrage parameters are not statistically different from those obtained from the Nelson and Siegel model, at a 95 percent confidence level. I therefore conclude that the Nelson and Siegel yield curve model is compatible with arbitrage-freeness.

中小企業在臺灣經濟發展過程中，扮演著舉足輕重的地位。中小企業向為台灣經濟發展之基石，其所具備的靈活、彈性、進可攻、退可守等優點，是帶動台灣整體經濟快速發展的重要因素。另一方面，由於中小企業規模不大、人才與資金資源較為缺乏等，因此營運上相較大企業不易。長久以來，中小企業一直是台灣經濟發展的主體，在台灣經濟發展的成長或產業發展過程中，不論在拓展對外貿易、增加國民所得、提高人民生活水準或是在創造就業機會、促進社會安定，中小企業均有卓越之貢獻。 本研究透過台灣工商普查資料，以產業為基本單位，利用長期且完整的時間序列資料，探討中小企業市場占有率的變動情形，並藉由普通最小平方迴歸及分量迴歸，分析1991年、1996年及2001年中小企業市場占有率之決定因素。以普通最小平方迴歸的方式來估計中小企業市場占有率時，會忽略其條件分配的差異。由實証結果發現，1991年、1996年及2001年中小企業相對其產業之平均勞動生產力(RL)對於中小企業市場占有率為顯著的正向影響，而產業出口比例(EX) 及產業平均年齡(AG)對於中小企業市場占有率為顯著的負向影響，在這10年間此三變數一直為重要的影響因素；產業加工收入與營收比(XR)與產業加工支出與薪資比(XE)皆屬分包制度的指標ㄧ，由三年合併的模型來看，此兩變數皆在中小企業市占率偏中低的產業有著顯著的正向影響。 / In the process of Taiwan economic development, small and medium size enterprises play very significant positions. In general, they are the foundations of Taiwan’s economy. With their flexible and efficiency manufacturing characteristics, small and medium size enterprises are the most contributors for Taiwan’s economic growth. However, as they are recognized as lack of financial capital and human resources, it is more difficult for them to manage their operations than big size enterprises. The small and medium size enterprises have occupied a significant proportion of Taiwan economy system for a long time. In the history of economy and industry development in Taiwan, the small and medium size enterprises have remarkable contributions in many aspects, such as the growth of foreign trade, national income and work opportunity, the improvement of the living standard, or the stability of society. This study base on census data which have long-term and complete time series data to seek the changes of market shares of small and medium size enterprises and to analyze the determinants of market shares of small and medium size enterprises in 1991、1996 and 2001 by OLS regression and quantile regression. We employ quantile regression to capture the behavior at each quantile of conditional distribution. According to the data result, RL is significant positive effect on market shares of small and medium size enterprises, while EX and AG is significant negative effect on it in 1991、1996 and 2001. These three variables are important factors during the past 10 years. XR and XE both are indications of sub-contracting system. As result of three-year combination model, these two variables are significant positive effect on market shares of small and medium size enterprises which belong to the industry of small and medium quantiles.