Esmaiel Abounoori

[ 1 ] - A New Nonlinear Specification of Structural Breaks for Money Demand in Iran

In a structural time series regression model, binary variables have been used to quantify qualitative or categorical quantitative events such as politic and economic structural breaks, regions, age groups and etc. The use of the binary dummy variables is not reasonable because the effect of an event decreases (increases) gradually over time not at once. The simple and basic idea in this paper i...