Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents

Ecological patents have been increasing steadily over time. This paper analyses trends and volatility in ecological patents in the USA from 1975 to 1997. Germany contributed more than 10% of the total US ecological patents, and is by far the strongest foreign performer. This paper estimates a set of...

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Main Authors: Chan, Felix, Marinova, Dora, Mcaleer, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier SCI Ltd 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3159
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author Chan, Felix
Marinova, Dora
Mcaleer, M.
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Marinova, Dora
Mcaleer, M.
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description Ecological patents have been increasing steadily over time. This paper analyses trends and volatility in ecological patents in the USA from 1975 to 1997. Germany contributed more than 10% of the total US ecological patents, and is by far the strongest foreign performer. This paper estimates a set of novel regime-switching models to investigate the time-varying nature of the conditional mean, as well as the conditional variance of the patent ratio, namely the ratio of US ecological patents to total US patents, using monthly data from January 1975 to December 1997. The regime-switching LSTAR-GARCH model is found to be optimal for modelling the ecological patent ratio.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-31592017-09-13T14:31:37Z Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents Chan, Felix Marinova, Dora Mcaleer, M. STAR-GARCH GARCH STAR-GJR GJR Regime-switching Ecological patents Asymmetry Trends Volatility Ecological patents have been increasing steadily over time. This paper analyses trends and volatility in ecological patents in the USA from 1975 to 1997. Germany contributed more than 10% of the total US ecological patents, and is by far the strongest foreign performer. This paper estimates a set of novel regime-switching models to investigate the time-varying nature of the conditional mean, as well as the conditional variance of the patent ratio, namely the ratio of US ecological patents to total US patents, using monthly data from January 1975 to December 1997. The regime-switching LSTAR-GARCH model is found to be optimal for modelling the ecological patent ratio. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3159 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.09.017 Elsevier SCI Ltd restricted
spellingShingle STAR-GARCH
GARCH
STAR-GJR
GJR
Regime-switching
Ecological patents
Asymmetry
Trends
Volatility
Chan, Felix
Marinova, Dora
Mcaleer, M.
Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents
title Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents
title_full Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents
title_fullStr Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents
title_full_unstemmed Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents
title_short Modelling thresholds and volatility in US ecological patents
title_sort modelling thresholds and volatility in us ecological patents
topic STAR-GARCH
GARCH
STAR-GJR
GJR
Regime-switching
Ecological patents
Asymmetry
Trends
Volatility
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3159