The long memory model of political support: some further results

Byers, D and Davidson, J and Peel, D (2005) The long memory model of political support: some further results. Working Paper. The Department of Economics, Lancaster University.

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Abstract

This paper extends the results of Byers, Davidson and Peel (1997) on long memory in support for the Conservative and Labour Parties in the UK using longer samples and additional poll series. It finds continuing support for the ARFIMA(0,d,0) model though with somewhat smaller values of the long memory parameter. We find that the move to telephone polling in the mid-1990s has no apparent effect on the estimated value of d for either party. Finally, we find that we cannot reject the hypotheses that the parties share a common long memory parameter which we estimate at around 0.65.

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Monograph (Working Paper)
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Subjects:
?? FRACTIONAL INTEGRATIONLONG MEMORYOPINION POLLSPARTISANSHIPPOLITICAL SUPPORTDISCIPLINE-BASED RESEARCH ??
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Deposited On:
11 Jul 2011 21:14
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12 Sep 2023 04:17