Download or read book Volatility and Time Series Econometrics written by Tim Bollerslev and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Engle received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003 for his work in time series econometrics. This book contains 16 original research contributions by some the leading academic researchers in the fields of time series econometrics, forecasting, volatility modelling, financial econometrics and urban economics, along with historical perspectives related to field of time series econometrics more generally. Engle's Nobel Prize citation focuses on his path-breaking work on autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) and the profound effect that this work has had on the field of financial econometrics. Several of the chapters focus on conditional heteroskedasticity, and develop the ideas of Engle's Nobel Prize winning work. Engle's work has had its most profound effect on the modelling of financial variables and several of the chapters use newly developed time series methods to study the behavior of financial variables. Each of the 16 chapters may be read in isolation, but they all importantly build on and relate to the seminal work by Nobel Laureate Robert F. Engle.
Download or read book Volatility and Time Series Econometrics written by Mark Watson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume that celebrates and develops the work of Nobel Laureate Robert Engle, it includes original contributions from some of the world's leading econometricians that further Engle's work in time series economics
Download or read book Essays on Financial Time Series Volatility written by Jun Cai and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Financial Time Series Models written by Jonas Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Volatility of Macroeconomic and Financial Time Series written by Wei-Choun Yu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Financial Time Series written by Isao Ishida and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Financial Return and Volatility Modeling written by Jing Wu (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation consists of three essays focusing on modeling financial asset return and volatility. The first essay proposes a threshold GARCH model to describe the regimeswitching in volatility dynamics of financial asset returns. In the threshold model the switching of regimes is triggered by an observable threshold variable, while volatility follows a GARCH process within each regime. This model can be viewed as a special case of the random coefficient GARCH model. We establish theoretical conditions, which ensure that the return process in the threshold model is strictly stationary, as well as conditions for the existence of finite variance and fourth moment. A simulation study is further conducted to examine the finite sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimator. The second essay extends our study of the threshold GARCH model to an empirical application. The empirical results support the use of the threshold variable to identify the regime shifts in the volatility process. Especially when VIX is used as the threshold, we are able to separate the clustering of volatile periods corresponding to various financial crises. According to 5 common measures on forecasting evaluation, the threshold GARCH model provides better volatility forecasts for stocks as well as currency exchange rates. The third essay examines the effect of time structure on the estimation performance of independent component analysis (ICA) models and provides guidance in applying the ICA model to time series data. We compare the performance of the basic ICA model to the time series ICA model in which the cross-autocovariances are used as a measure to achieve independence. We conduct a simulation study to evaluate the time series ICA model under different time structure assumptions about the underlying components that generate financial time series. Moreover, the empirical results support the use of the time series ICA model.
Download or read book Analysis of Financial Time Series written by Ruey S. Tsay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad, mature, and systematic introduction to current financial econometric models and their applications to modeling and prediction of financial time series data. It utilizes real-world examples and real financial data throughout the book to apply the models and methods described. The author begins with basic characteristics of financial time series data before covering three main topics: Analysis and application of univariate financial time series The return series of multiple assets Bayesian inference in finance methods Key features of the new edition include additional coverage of modern day topics such as arbitrage, pair trading, realized volatility, and credit risk modeling; a smooth transition from S-Plus to R; and expanded empirical financial data sets. The overall objective of the book is to provide some knowledge of financial time series, introduce some statistical tools useful for analyzing these series and gain experience in financial applications of various econometric methods.
Download or read book Essays on Multivariate Volatility and Dependence Models for Financial Time Series written by Diaa Noureldin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Persistence and Volatility in Financial Time Series written by Tristan Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Financial Economics written by Rita Biswas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, dedicated to John W. Kensinger, explores a variety of topics in financial economics, including firm growth, investment risks, and the profitability of the banking industry. With its global perspective, Essays in Financial Economics is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any researcher in finance.
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Econometrics written by Byung-Dong Seo and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first essay investigates the relationship between financial durations and volatility of asset prices. A duration process extracted from stock transaction data is included as an explanatory variable to the time series models of realized volatility. Financial durations have strong forecasting power for volatility dynamics.
Download or read book Essays on Financial Volatility and Correlation written by George Christodoulakis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Time Varying Volatility and Structural Breaks in Macroeconomics and Econometrics written by Nyamekye Asare and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is comprised of three independent essays. One essay is in the field of macroeconomics and the other two are in time-series econometrics. The first essay, "Productivity and Business Investment over the Business Cycle", is co-authored with my co-supervisor Hashmat Khan. This essay documents a new stylized fact: the correlation between labour productivity and real business investment in the U.S. data switching from 0.54 to -0.1 in 1990. With the assistance of a bivariate VAR, we find that the response of investment to identified technology shocks has changed signs from positive to negative across two sub-periods: ranging from the time of the post-WWII era to the end of 1980s and from 1990 onwards, whereas the response to non-technology shocks has remained relatively unchanged. Also, the volatility of technology shocks declined less relative to the non-technology shocks. This raises the question of whether relatively more volatile technology shocks and the negative response of investment can together account for the decreased correlation. To answer this question, we consider a canonical DSGE model and simulate data under a variety of assumptions about the parameters representing structural features and volatility of shocks. The second and third essays are in time series econometrics and solely authored by myself. The second essay, however, focuses on the impact of ignoring structural breaks in the conditional volatility parameters on time-varying volatility parameters. The focal point of the third essay is on empirical relevance of structural breaks in time-varying volatility models and the forecasting gains of accommodating structural breaks in the unconditional variance. There are several ways in modeling time-varying volatility. One way is to use the autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH)/generalized ARCH (GARCH) class first introduced by Engle (1982) and Bollerslev (1986). One prominent model is Bollerslev (1986) GARCH model in which the conditional volatility is updated by its own residuals and its lags. This class of models is popular amongst practitioners in finance because they are able to capture stylized facts about asset returns such as fat tails and volatility clustering (Engle and Patton, 2001; Zivot, 2009) and require maximum likelihood methods for estimation. They also perform well in forecasting volatility. For example, Hansen and Lunde (2005) find that it is difficult to beat a simple GARCH(1,1) model in forecasting exchange rate volatility. Another way of modeling time-varying volatility is to use the class of stochastic volatility (SV) models including Taylor's (1986) autoregressive stochastic volatility (ARSV) model. With SV models, the conditional volatility is updated only by its own lags and increasingly used in macroeconomic modeling (i.e.Justiniano and Primiceri (2010)). Fernandez-Villaverde and Rubio-Ramirez (2010) claim that the stochastic volatility model fits better than the GARCH model and is easier to incorporate into DSGE models. However, Creal et al. (2013) recently introduced a new class of models called the generalized autoregressive score (GAS) models. With the GAS volatility framework, the conditional variance is updated by the scaled score of the model's density function instead of the squared residuals. According to Creal et al. (2013), GAS models are advantageous to use because updating the conditional variance using the score of the log-density instead of the second moments can improve a model's fit to data. They are also found to be less sensitive to other forms of misspecification such as outliers. As mentioned by Maddala and Kim (1998), structural breaks are considered to be one form of outliers. This raises the question about whether GAS volatility models are less sensitive to parameter non-constancy. This issue of ignoring structural breaks in the volatility parameters is important because neglecting breaks can cause the conditional variance to exhibit unit root behaviour in which the unconditional variance is undefined, implying that any shock to the variance will not gradually decline (Lamoureux and Lastrapes, 1990). The impact of ignoring parameter non-constancy is found in GARCH literature (see Lamoureux and Lastrapes, 1990; Hillebrand, 2005) and in SV literature (Psaradakis and Tzavalis, 1999; Kramer and Messow, 2012) in which the estimated persistence parameter overestimates its true value and approaches one. However, it has never been addressed in GAS literature until now. The second essay uses a simple Monte-Carlo simulation study to examine the impact of neglecting parameter non-constancy on the estimated persistence parameter of several GAS and non-GAS models of volatility. Five different volatility models are examined. Of these models, three --the GARCH(1,1), t-GAS(1,1), and Beta-t-EGARCH(1,1) models -- are GAS models, while the other two -- the t-GARCH(1,1) and EGARCH(1,1) models -- are not. Following Hillebrand (2005) who studied only the GARCH model, this essay examines the extent of how biased the estimated persistence parameter are by assessing impact of ignoring breaks on the mean value of the estimated persistence parameter. The impact of neglecting parameter non-constancy on the empirical sampling distributions and coverage probabilities for the estimated persistence parameters are also studied in this essay. For the latter, studying the effect on the coverage probabilities is important because a decrease in coverage probabilities is associated with an increase in Type I error. This study has implications for forecasting. If the size of an ignored break in parameters is small, then there may not be any gains in using forecast methods that accommodate breaks. Empirical evidence suggests that structural breaks are present in data on macro-financial variables such as oil prices and exchange rates. The potentially serious consequences of ignoring a break in GARCH parameters motivated Rapach and Strauss (2008) and Arouri et al. (2012) to study the empirical relevance of structural breaks in the context of GARCH models. However, the literature does not address the empirical relevance of structural breaks in the context of GAS models. The third and final essay contributes to this literature by extending Rapach and Strauss (2008) to include the t-GAS model and by comparing its performance to that of two non-GAS models, the t-GARCH and SV models. The empirical relevance of structural breaks in the models of volatility is assessed using a formal test by Dufour and Torres (1998) to determine how much the estimated parameters change over sub-periods. The in-sample performance of all the models is analyzed using both the weekly USD trade-weighted index between January 1973 and October 2016 and spot oil prices based on West Texas Intermediate between January 1986 and October 2016. The full sample is split into smaller subsamples by break dates chosen based on historical events and policy changes rather than formal tests. This is because commonly-used tests such as CUSUM suffer from low power (Smith, 2008; Xu, 2013). For each sub-period, all models are estimated using either oil or USD returns. The confidence intervals are constructed for the constant of the conditional parameter and the score parameter (or ARCH parameter in GARCH and t-GARCH models). Then Dufour and Torres's union-intersection test is applied to these confidence intervals to determine how much the estimated parameter change over sub-periods. If there is a set of values that intersects the confidence intervals of all sub-periods, then one can conclude that the parameters do not change that much. The out-of-sample performance of all time-varying volatility models are also assessed in the ability to forecast the mean and variance of oil and USD returns. Through this analysis, this essay also addresses whether using models that accommodate structural breaks in the unconditional variance of both GAS and non-GAS models will improve forecasts.
Download or read book Essays on Time Series Forecasting with Neural network Or Long dependence Autoregressive Models and Macroeconomic News Effects on Bond Yields written by Morvan Nongni Donfack and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis, organized in three chapters, focuses on modelling and forecasting economic and financial time series. The first two chapters propose new econometric models for analysing economic and financial data by relaxing unrealistic assumptions usually made in the literature. Chapter 1 develops a new volatility model named TVP[subscript ANN]-GARCH. The model offers rich dynamics to model financial data by allowing for a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) structure in which parameters vary over time according to an artificial neural network (ANN). The use of ANNs for parameters dynamics is a valuable contribution as it helps to deal with the problem of likelihood evaluation (exhibited in time-varying parameters (TVP) models). It also allows for the use of additional explanatory variables. The chapter develops an original and efficient Sequential Monte Carlo sampler (SMC) to estimate the model. An empirical application shows that the model favourably compares to popular volatility processes in terms of out-of sample fit. The approach can easily be extended to any fixed-parameters model. Chapter 2 develops three parsimonious autoregressive (AR) lag polynomials that generate slowly decaying autocorrelation functions as generally observed financial and economic time series. The dynamics of the lag polynomials are similar to that of two well performing processes, namely the Markov-Switching Multifractal (MSM) and the Factorial Hidden Markov Volatility (FHMV) models. They are very flexible as they can be applied in many popular models such as ARMA, GARCH, and stochastic volatility processes. An empirical analysis highlights the usefulness of the lag polynomials for conditional mean and volatility forecasting. They could be considered as forecasting alternatives for economic and financial time series. The last chapter relies on a two steps predictive regression approach to identify the impact of US macroeconomic releases on three small open economies (Canada, United Kingdom, and Sweden) bond yields at high and low frequencies. Our findings suggest that US macro news are significantly more important in explaining yield curve dynamics in small open economies (SOEs) than domestic news itself. Not only US monetary policy news are important drivers of SOEs bond yield changes, but business cycle news also play a significant role.
Download or read book Time Series written by Ngai Hang Chan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Financial Time Series fills a gap in the market in the area of financial time series analysis by giving both conceptual and practical illustrations. Examples and discussions in the later chapters of the book make recent developments in time series more accessible. Examples from finance are maximized as much as possible throughout the book. * Full set of exercises is displayed at the end of each chapter. * First seven chapters cover standard topics in time series at a high-intensity level. * Recent and timely developments in nonstandard time series techniques are illustrated with real finance examples in detail. * Examples are systemically illustrated with S-plus with codes and data available on an associated Web site.
