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Time Varying Parameters with Random Components: The Orange Juice Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Ronald W. Ward  and
Daniel S. Tilley
Ronald W. Ward
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida
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The assumption of nonstochastic parameters has long been recognized as restrictive to the solution of many marketing problems and to economic modeling in general. Parameter variation historically has been treated with the use of nonstochastic adjustments through interaction variables and the use of proxy dummy and trend variables. Though these empirical techniques in many cases give reasonable results, they presuppose that the researcher can specify the nature of the parameter change. In fact, it may not be obvious that random parameters are part of the estimation problem. Furthermore, specification of structural shifts in parameters is usually difficult. Comparison of parameter changes through techniques such as grouping of data and using various F-tests is most often dependent on the criteria for grouping (Maddala, p. 390–404). Also, the procedure fails to identify the dynamic path of adjustments that must have occurred when various F-tests indicate that parameters have changed. Other approaches to determining structural shifts in parameters may require elaborate search procedures. To limit the extent to which the search is required, restrictive assumptions about many of the parameters are sometimes made (Simon).

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , December 1980 , pp. 5 - 13
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1980

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