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- Title
HEAVY-TAILED-DISTRIBUTED THRESHOLD STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODELS IN FINANCIAL TIME SERIES.
- Authors
Chen, Cathy W. S.; Liu, F. C.; So, Mike K. P.
- Abstract
To capture mean and variance asymmetries and time-varying volatility in financial time series, we generalize the threshold stochastic volatility (THSV) model and incorporate a heavy-tailed error distribution. Unlike existing stochastic volatility models, this model simultaneously accounts for uncertainty in the unobserved threshold value and in the time-delay parameter. Self-exciting and exogenous threshold variables are considered to investigate the impact of a number of market news variables on volatility changes. Adopting a Bayesian approach, we use Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to estimate all unknown parameters and latent variables. A simulation experiment demonstrates good estimation performance for reasonable sample sizes. In a study of two international financial market indices, we consider two variants of the generalized THSV model, with US market news as the threshold variable. Finally, we compare models using Bayesian forecasting in a value-at-risk (VaR) study. The results show that our proposed model can generate more accurate VaR forecasts than can standard models.
- Subjects
KALMAN filtering; MARKOV processes; MONTE Carlo method; STOCHASTIC processes; BAYESIAN analysis
- Publication
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2008, Vol 50, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1369-1473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-842X.2007.00498.x