We give a formula for the duals of the masks associated with trivariate box spline functions. We show how to construct trivariate nonseparable compactly supported biorthogonal wavelets associated with box spline functions. The biorthogonal wavelets may have arbitrarily high regularities.

The skewness in physical distributions of equity index returns and the implied volatility skew in the risk neutral measure are subjects of extensive academic research. Much attention is now being focused on models that are able to capture time-varying conditional skewness and kurtosis. For this reason normal mixture GARCH(1,1) models have become very popular in financial econometrics. We introd...

A Skewed Student-t Realised DCC copula model using Realised Volatility GARCH marginal functions is developed within a Bayesian framework for the purpose of forecasting portfolio Value at Risk and Conditional Value at Risk. The use of copulas is implemented so that the marginal distributions can be separated from the dependence structure to produce tail forecasts. This is compared to using tradi...

Recently, many Bayesian methods have been developed for dose finding when simultaneously modeling both toxicity and efficacy outcomes in a blended phase I/II fashion. A further challenge arises when all the true efficacy data cannot be obtained quickly after the treatment so that surrogate markers are instead used (e.g., in cancer trials). We propose a framework to jointly model the probabiliti...

The aim of this paper is to forecast (out-of-sample) the distribution of financial returns based on realized volatility measures constructed from high-frequency returns. We adopt a semi-parametric model for the distribution by assuming that the return quantiles depend on the realized measures and evaluate the distribution, quantile and interval forecasts of the quantile model in comparison to a...

It is well known that volatility asymmetry exists in financial markets. This paper reviews and investigates recently developed techniques for Bayesian estimation and model selection applied to a large group of modern asymmetric heteroskedastic models. These include the GJR-GARCH, threshold autoregression with GARCH errors, threshold GARCH and Double threshold heteroskedastic model with auxiliar...

A class of semiparametric fractional autoregressive GARCH models (SEMIFARGARCH), which includes deterministic trends, difference stationarity and stationarity with shortand long-range dependence, and heteroskedastic model errors, is very powerful for modelling financial time series. This paper discusses the model fitting, including an efficient algorithm and parameter estimation of GARCH error ...

In this paper, we establish sharp bounds on the distribution of the treatment effect in switching regimes models or generalized sample selection models in Heckman (1990). These bounds depend on the identified model parameters only and hence are themselves identified. Their estimation is straightforward once the identified model parameters are estimated. We compare our bounds when the identified...

This paper proposes a simple test for threshold nonlinearity in either the mean or volatility equation, or both, of a heteroskedastic time series. Our proposal adopts existing Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to fit a general double threshold GARCH model, which may have an explosive regime, then forms posterior credible intervals on model parameters to detect and specify threshold nonl...

This paper attempts to model the behavior of 1-minute high frequency exchange rate data of 5 currencies : the Japanese Yen, the Australian Dollar, the Canadian Dollar, the Euro, the Pound sterling against the US Dollar, on 21 July 2005 when the Chinese Yuan was revaluated. The data shows the following distinctive features: (1) There is a large jump at the time of the Yuan revaluation, (2) Large...