Download or read book The Risk return Tradeoff and Leverage Effect in a Stochastic Volatility in mean Model written by Bent Jesper Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study About the Existence of the Leverage Effect in Stochastic Volatility Models written by Ionut Florescu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empirical relationship between the return of an asset and the volatility of the asset has been well documented in the financial literature. Named the leverage e ffect or sometimes risk-premium effect, it is observed in real data that, when the return of the asset decreases, the volatility increases and vice-versa.Consequently, it is important to demonstrate that any formulated model for the asset price is capable to generate this eff ect observed in practice. Furthermore, we need to understand the conditions on the parameters present in the model that guarantee the apparition of the leverage effect. In this paper we analyze two general speci cations of stochastic volatility models and their capability of generating the perceived leverage effect. We derive conditions for the apparition of leverage e ffect in both of these stochastic volatility models. We exemplify using stochastic volatility models used in practice and we explicitly state the conditions for the existence of the leverage effect in these examples.
Download or read book The Leverage Effect in Stochastic Volatility written by Amaan Mehrabian and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking empirical feature of many financial time series is that when the price drops, the future volatility increases. This negative correlation between the financial return and future volatility processes was initially addressed in Black 76 and explained based on financial leverage, or a firm's debt-to-equity ratio: when the price drops, financial leverage increases, the firm becomes riskier, and hence, the future expected volatility increases. The phenomenon is, therefore, traditionally been named the leverage effect. In a discrete time Stochastic Volatility (SV) model framework, the leverage effect is often modelled by a negative correlation between the innovation processes of return and volatility equations. These models can be represented as state space models in which the returns and the volatilities are considered as the observed and the latent state variables respectively. Including the leverage effect in the SV model not only results in a better fit ...
Download or read book A Stochastic Volatility Model with Leverage Effect and Regime Switching written by Hong Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There is a Risk return Tradeoff After All written by Eric Ghysels and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the ICAPM intertemporal relation between the conditional mean and the conditional variance of the aggregate stock market return. We introduce a new estimator that forecasts monthly variance with past daily squared returns %u2013 the Mixed Data Sampling (or MIDAS) approach. Using MIDAS, we find that there is a significantly positive relation between risk and return in the stock market. This finding is robust in subsamples, to asymmetric specifications of the variance process, and to controlling for variables associated with the business cycle. We compare the MIDAS results with tests of the ICAPM based on alternative conditional variance specifications and explain the conflicting results in the literature. Finally, we offer new insights about the dynamics of conditional variance.
Download or read book Stochastic volatility and the pricing of financial derivatives written by Antoine Petrus Cornelius van der Ploeg and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Measures Under a Stochastic Volatility Model with a Mixture of Normal Error Distribution written by Dinghai Xu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper constructs Value at Risk (VaR) measures from a stochastic volatility model with a discrete bivariate mixture-of-normal error distribution - henceforth SV-MN. This volatility-gnerating model is able to accommodate many of the salient features of financial asset returns, such as time-varying volatility, volatility clustering, excess skewness and kurtosis in the return distribution. In addition, it is also able to capture the so-called leverage effect prominent in many asset returns in the equity market. Three sets of Monte-Carlo simulations are conducted to assess the performances of the constructed VaR measures relative to those generated from other competing models. The results show that the VaR measures constructed from the SV-MN model perform well under different data generating processes. We also apply our proposed model to S&P 500 and CRSP stock indices. We find that the empirical VaR measures obtained from our SV-MN model also perform very well relative to those generated from other competing models for the sample return data examined in this paper.
Download or read book Estimation for Mean reverting Stochastic Volatility Models with a Leverage Effect written by Agnès Grimaud and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Stochastic Volatility Model with Fat Tails Skewness and Leverage Effects written by Daniel R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We develop a new stochastic volatility model that captures the three most important features of stock index returns: negative correlation between returns and future volatility, excess kurtosis and negative skewness. We estimate the model parameters by maximum likelihood using a numerical integration-based filter to deal with the latent nature of volatility. In this approach different models are defined by varying the joint density of returns and future volatility conditional on current volatility. Our innovation is to construct the joint conditional density using a copula. This approach is tremendously flexible and allows the econometrician to choose the marginal distribution of both returns and volatility independently and then stitch them together using a copula, which is also chosen independently, to form the joint density. We also develop conditional moment-based model specification tests for the extent to which the various stochastic volatility models are able to capture the skewness and excess kurtosis we observe in practice. The parameter estimates and conditional moment tests indicate that leverage effects, excess kurtosis and skewness are all crucial for modeling stock returns.
Download or read book A Stochastic Volatility Model with Conditional Skewness written by Bruno Feunou 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 Stochastic Volatility and Time Deformation written by Joann Jasiak and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we study stochastic volatility models with time deformation. Such processes relate to the early work by Mandelbrot and Taylor (1967), Clark (1973), Tauchen and Pitts (1983), among others. In our setup, the latent process of stochastic volatility evolves in an operational time which differs from calendar time. The time deformation can be determined by past volume of trade, past returns, possibly with an asymmetric leverage effect, and other variables setting the pace of information arrival. The econometric specification exploits the state-space approach for stochastic volatility models proposed by Harvey, Ruiz and Shephard (1994) as well as the matching moment estimation procedure using SNP densities of stock returns and trading volume estimated by Gallant, Rossi and Tauchen (1992). Daily data on returns and trading volume of the NYSE are used in the empirical application. Supporting evidence for a time deformation representation is found and its impact on the behavior of returns and volume is analyzed. We find that increases in volume accelerate operational time, resulting in volatility being less persistent and subject to shocks with a higher innovation variance. Downward price movements have similar effects while upward price movements increase the persistence in volatility and decrease the dispersion of shocks by slowing down market time. We present the basic model as well as several extensions; in particular, we formulate and estimate a bivariate return-volume stochastic volatility model with time deformation. The latter is examined through bivariate impulse response profiles following the example of Gallant, Rossi and Tauchen (1993).
Download or read book Empirical Evidence of the Leverage Effect in a Stochastic Volatility Model written by Dinghai Xu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiple Time Scales in Volatility and Leverage Correlations written by Josep Perelló and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial time series exhibit two different type of non linear correlations: (i) volatility autocorrelations that have a very long range memory, on the order of years, and (ii) asymmetric return-volatility (or 'leverage') correlations that are much shorter ranged. Different stochastic volatility models have been proposed in the past to account for both these correlations. However, in these models, the decay of the correlations is exponential, with a single time scale for both the volatility and the leverage correlations, at variance with observations. We extend the linear Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic volatility model by assuming that the mean reverting level is itself random. We find that the resulting three-dimensional diffusion process can account for different correlation time scales. We show that the results are in good agreement with a century of the Dow Jones index daily returns (1900-2000), with the exception of crash days.
Download or read book Beyond Stochastic Volatility and Jumps in Returns and Volatility written by Garland Durham and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a great deal of attention has been focused on stochastic volatility in stock returns, there is strong evidence suggesting that return distributions have time-varying skewness and kurtosis as well. Under the risk-neutral measure, for example, this can be seen from variation across time in the shape of Black-Scholes implied volatility smiles. This paper investigates model characteristics that are consistent with variation in the shape of return distributions using a stochastic volatility model with a regime-switching feature to allow for random changes in the parameters governing volatility of volatility, leverage effect and jump intensity. The analysis consists of two steps. First, the models are estimated using only information from observed returns and option-implied volatility. Standard model assessment tools indicate a strong preference in favor of the proposed models. Since the information from option-implied skewness and kurtosis is not used in fitting the models, it is available for diagnostic purposes. In the second step of the analysis, regressions of option-implied skewness and kurtosis on the filtered state variables (and some controls) suggest that the models have strong explanatory power for these characteristics.
Download or read book A Risk Return Relation in Stock Markets written by Napon Hongsakulvasu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I propose a new semi-parametric GARCH-in-Mean model. Since many empirical papers have the mix results on the risk-return relation, the cause of problem may come from the misspecification of conditional mean equation or conditional variance equation or both of them. My model uses non-parametric estimation in conditional mean equation and semi-parametric estimation in conditional variance equation which allows the non-linear risk return relation in conditional mean equation and allows the non-linear relation between the volatility and the cumulative sum of exponentially weighted past returns. Three parameters on my model are GARCH parameter, the leverage effect parameter and leptokurtic parameter. I also extend my model to include four exogenous variables, dividend yield, term spread, default spread and momentum into conditional mean equation by using additive model which allows each variable to have non-linear relation with the return. An empirical study on S&P 500 suggests that risk has a small affect on market return. However, when four exogenous variables are added to the model, my model shows that the risk-return relation has a positive hump shape. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155545
Download or read book EGARCH and Stochastic Volatility written by Jouchi Nakajima and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper proposes the EGARCH [Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity] model with jumps and heavy-tailed errors, and studies the empirical performance of different models including the stochastic volatility models with leverage, jumps and heavy-tailed errors for daily stock returns. In the framework of a Bayesian inference, the Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation methods for these models are illustrated with a simulation study. The model comparison based on the marginal likelihood estimation is provided with data on the U.S. stock index."--Author's abstract.
