We present a new approach to generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasitic (GARCH) modelling for asset returns. Instead of attempting to choose a speciic distribution for the errors, as in the usual GARCH model formulation, we use a nonparametric distribution to estimate these errors. This takes into account the common problems encountered in nan-cial time series, for example, asymmet...

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) series exhibit long memory and time-varying conditional variance. This work considers the Fractionally Integrated AutoRegressive Moving Average (ARFIMA) models with Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) errors. ARFIMA-GARCH models may be used to capture and remove long memory and estimate the conditional volatility in 24 h HRV recordings. Th...

It is well known in the literature that the joint parameter estimation of the Smooth Autoregressive – Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (STAR-GARCH) models poses many numerical challenges with unknown causes. This paper aims to uncover the root of the numerical difficulties in obtaining stable parameter estimates for a class of three-regime STAR-GARCH models using Quasi-...

Yingfu Xie. Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Forecasting for GARCH, Markov Switching, and Locally Stationary Wavelet Processes. Doctoral Thesis. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 978-91-85913-06-0. Financial time series are frequently met both in daily life and the scientific world. It is clearly of importance to study the financial time series, to understand the mechanism giving rise to the data, and/or p...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the methods addressing volatility in computational finance and econometrics. Peiris et al. [8] have introduced doubly stochastic volatility models with GARCH innovations. Random coefficient autoregressive sequences are special case of doubly stochastic time series. In this paper, we consider some doubly stochastic stationary time series with GARCH ...

We collect some continuous time GARCH models and report on how they approximate discrete time GARCH processes. Similarly, certain continuous time volatility models are viewed as approximations to discrete time volatility models. 1 Stochastic volatility models and discrete GARCH Both stochastic volatility models and GARCH processes are popular models for the description of financial time series....

We use high-frequency intra-day realized volatility to evaluate the relative forecasting performance of several models for the volatility of crude oil daily spot returns. Our objective is to evaluate the predictive ability of time-invariant and Markov switching GARCH models over different horizons. Using Carasco, Hu and Ploberger (2014) test for regime switching in the mean and variance of the ...

The research of Kim and Schmidt (1993) is extended to examine the properties of asymmetric unit root tests in the presence of generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH). Using Monte Carlo simulation, threshold autoregressive and momentum—threshold autoregressive asymmetric unit tests are shown to suffer greater size distortion than the original (implicitly symmetric) Dick...

This paper aims to investigate a Bayesian sampling approach to parameter estimation in the GARCH model with an unknown conditional error density, which we approximate by a mixture of Gaussian densities centered at individual errors and scaled by a common standard deviation. This mixture density has the form of a kernel density estimator of the errors with its bandwidth being the standard deviat...

In this paper, we introduce a new GARCH model with an infinitely divisible distributed innovation, referred to as the rapidly decreasing tempered stable (RDTS) GARCH model. This model allows the description of some stylized empirical facts observed for stock and index returns, such as volatility clustering, the non-zero skewness and excess kurtosis for the residual distribution. Furthermore, we...