不同矩属性波动模型对中国股市波动率的预测精度分析

金融时间序列的波动性建模经历了从一阶矩到二阶矩直到高阶矩(包含三阶矩和四阶矩)的过程,而对于高阶矩波动模型是否有助于对未来市场的波动率预测这一问题,国内外学术界尚无文献讨论。以上证综指长达7年的每5分钟高频数据样本为例,通过构建具有不同矩属性的波动模型,计算了中国股票市场波动率的预测值,并利用具有bootstrap特性的SPA检验法,实证检验了不同矩属性波动模型的波动率预测精度差异。实证结果显示:就中国股市而言,四阶矩波动模型能够取得比二阶矩波动模型更优的波动率预测精度,而三阶矩波动模型并未表现出比二阶矩波动模型更强的预测能力;在高阶矩波动模型中包含杠杆效应项并不能提高模型的预测精度。最后提出了在金融风险管理、衍生产品定价等领域引入四阶矩波动模型的研究思路。     

Improving density forecast by modeling asymmetric features: An application to S&P500 returns

A density forecast is an estimate of the probability distribution of the possible future values of a random variable. From the current literature, an economic time series may have three types of asymmetry: asymmetry in unconditional distribution, asymmetry in conditional distribution, volatility asymmetry. In this paper, we propose three density forecasting methods under two-piece normal assumption to capture these asymmetric features. A GARCH model with two-piece normal distribution is developed to capture asymmetries in the conditional distributions. In this approach, we first estimate parameters of a GARCH model by assuming normal innovations, and then fit a two-piece normal distribution to the empirical residuals. Block bootstrap procedure, and moving average method with two-piece normal distribution are presented for volatility asymmetry and asymmetry in the conditional distributions. Application of the developed methods to the weekly S&P500 returns illustrates that forecast quality can be significantly improved by modeling these asymmetric features.     

The Combination of Forecasts

Two separate sets of forecasts of airline passenger data have been combined to form a composite set of forecasts. The main conclusion is that the composite set of forecasts can yield lower mean-square error than either of the original forecasts. Past errors of each of the original forecasts are used to determine the weights to attach to these two original forecasts in forming the combined forecasts, and different methods of deriving these weights are examined.     

Quantile forecasting based on a bivariate hysteretic autoregressive model with GARCH errors and time ‐varying correlations

To understand and predict chronological dependence in the second‐order moments of asset returns, this paper considers a multivariate hysteretic autoregressive (HAR) model with generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) specification and time‐varying correlations, by providing a new method to describe a nonlinear dynamic structure of the target time series. The hysteresis variable governs the nonlinear dynamics of the proposed model in which the regime switch can be delayed if the hysteresis variable lies in a hysteresis zone. The proposed setup combines three useful model components for modeling economic and financial data: (1) the multivariate HAR model, (2) the multivariate hysteretic volatility models, and (3) a dynamic conditional correlation structure. This research further incorporates an adapted multivariate Student t innovation based on a scale mixture normal presentation in the HAR model to tolerate for dependence and different shaped innovation components. This study carries out bivariate volatilities, Value at Risk, and marginal expected shortfall based on a Bayesian sampling scheme through adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, thus allowing to statistically estimate all unknown model parameters and forecasts simultaneously. Lastly, the proposed methods herein employ both simulated and real examples that help to jointly measure for industry downside tail risk.     

Exploratory Analysis and Modeling of Stock Returns

In this article, novel joint semiparametric spline-based modeling of conditional mean and volatility of financial time series is proposed and evaluated on daily stock return data. The modeling includes functions of lagged response variables and time as predictors. The latter can be viewed as a proxy for omitted economic variables contributing to the underlying dynamics. The conditional mean model is additive. The conditional volatility model is multiplicative and linearized with a logarithmic transformation. In addition, a cube-root power transformation is employed to symmetrize the lagged response variables. Using cubic splines, the model can be written as a multiple linear regression, thereby allowing predictions to be obtained in a simple manner. As outliers are often present in financial data, reliable estimation of the model parameters is achieved by trimmed least-square (TLS) estimation for which a reasonable amount of trimming is suggested. To obtain a parsimonious specification of the model, a new model selection criterion corresponding to TLS is derived. Moreover, the (three-parameter) generalized gamma distribution is identified as suitable for the absolute multiplicative errors and shown to work well for predictions and also for the calculation of quantiles, which is important to determine the value at risk. All model choices are motivated by a detailed analysis of IBM, HP, and SAP daily returns. The prediction performance is compared to the classical generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and asymmetric power GARCH (APGARCH) models as well as to a nonstationary time-trend volatility model. The results suggest that the proposed model may possess a high predictive power for future conditional volatility. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.     

Dynamic mortality factor model with conditional heteroskedasticity

In most methods for modeling mortality rates, the idiosyncratic shocks are assumed to be homoskedastic. This study investigates the conditional heteroskedasticity of mortality in terms of statistical time series. We start from testing the conditional heteroskedasticity of the period effect in the naïve Lee-Carter model for some mortality data. Then we introduce the Generalized Dynamic Factor method and the multivariate BEKK GARCH model to describe mortality dynamics and the conditional heteroskedasticity of mortality. After specifying the number of static factors and dynamic factors by several variants of information criterion, we compare our model with other two models, namely, the Lee-Carter model and the state space model. Based on several error-based measures of performance, our results indicate that if the number of static factors and dynamic factors is properly determined, the method proposed dominates other methods. Finally, we use our method combined with Kalman filter to forecast the mortality rates of Iceland and period life expectancies of Denmark, Finland, Italy and Netherlands.     

A wavelet smoothing method to improve conditional sales forecasting

This article proposes a wavelet smoothing method to improve conditional forecasts generated from linear regression sales response models. The method is applied to the forecasted values of the predictors to remove forecast errors and thereby improve the overall forecasting performance of the models. Eight empirical studies are presented in which the purpose was to forecast detergent sales in the Netherlands, and wavelet smoothing was compared with a moving average and a band-pass filter. All methods were found to improve forecasts. Wavelet smoothing provided the best results when applied on highly volatile marketing time series. In contrast, it was less effective when applied on highly aggregated and smooth time series. An advantage of wavelets is that they are flexible enough to allow for data characteristics like abrupt changes, spikes and cyclical changes that are usually associated with price changes and promotions.     

NGARCH模型在证券投资风险分析中的应用

应用NGARCH模型在三种分布假设下对上证综合指数进行了V aR风险值估计,并且与GARCH模型和APARCH模型估计结果作比较,通过返回检验,发现NGARCH模型应用于V aR估计是统计有效的,且优于GARCH和APARCH模型.     

Likelihood stabilization for ill-conditioned vector GARCH models

The likelihood of vector GARCH models is ill-conditioned because of two facts. First, when the series display high correlations, as often happens with financial data, some eigenvalues of the conditional covariance matrix are close to zero. Second, the likelihood function is very flat in the neighborhood of the optimum due to the functional form of the GARCH process. These facts explain the instability of multivariate GARCH estimation procedures. Building on this analysis, we suggest a data transformation which moves the critical eigenvalues far from zero and, therefore, improves the stability of iterative optimization methods. The transformed values are re-scaled principal components, so their interpretation is straightforward. The application of this technique is illustrated by modeling the short-run conditional correlations of four nominal exchange rates.      

Dynamic mortality factor model with conditional heteroskedasticity

In most methods for modeling mortality rates, the idiosyncratic shocks are assumed to be homoskedastic. This study investigates the conditional heteroskedasticity of mortality in terms of statistical time series. We start from testing the conditional heteroskedasticity of the period effect in the naïve Lee–Carter model for some mortality data. Then we introduce the Generalized Dynamic Factor method and the multivariate BEKK GARCH model to describe mortality dynamics and the conditional heteroskedasticity of mortality. After specifying the number of static factors and dynamic factors by several variants of information criterion, we compare our model with other two models, namely, the Lee–Carter model and the state space model. Based on several error-based measures of performance, our results indicate that if the number of static factors and dynamic factors is properly determined, the method proposed dominates other methods. Finally, we use our method combined with Kalman filter to forecast the mortality rates of Iceland and period life expectancies of Denmark, Finland, Italy and Netherlands.     

Bayesian modeling and forecasting of Value‐at‐Risk via threshold realized volatility

This study proposes a threshold realized generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (GARCH) model that jointly models daily returns and realized volatility, thereby taking into account the bias and asymmetry of realized volatility. We incorporate this threshold realized GARCH model with skew Student‐t innovations as the observation equation, view this model as a sharp transition model, and treat the realized volatility as a proxy for volatility under this nonlinear structure. Through the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method, the model can jointly estimate the parameters in the return equation, the volatility equation, and the measurement equation. As an illustration, we conduct a simulation study and apply the proposed method to the US and Japan stock markets. Based on quantile forecasting and volatility estimation, we find that the threshold heteroskedastic framework with realized volatility successfully models the asymmetric dynamic structure. We also investigate the predictive ability of volatility by comparing the proposed model with the traditional GARCH model as well as some popular asymmetric GARCH and realized GARCH models. This threshold realized GARCH model with skew Student‐t innovations outperforms the competing risk models in out‐of‐sample volatility and Value‐at‐Risk forecasting.     

RCA models with correlated errors

Financial time series data cannot be adequately modelled by a normal distribution and empirical evidence on the non-normality assumption is very well documented in the financial literature; see [R.F. Engle, Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity with estimates of the variance of UK inflation, Econometrica 50 (1982) 987–1008] and [T. Bollerslev, Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity, J. Econometrics 31 (1986) 307–327] for details. The kurtosis of various classes of RCA models has been the subject of a study by Appadoo et al. [S.S. Appadoo, M. Gharahmani, A. Thavaneswaran, Moment properties of some volatility models, Math. Sci. 30 (2005) 50–63] and Thavaneswaran et al. [A. Thavaneswaran, S.S. Appadoo, M. Samanta, Random coefficient GARCH models, Math. Comput. Modelling 41 (2005) 723–733]. In this work we derive the kurtosis of the correlated RCA model as well as the normal GARCH model under the assumption that the errors are correlated.     

Unit root testing in the presence of ARFIMA–GARCH errors

We consider asymptotic behavior of self‐normalized sums of autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average (ARFIMA) processes whose innovations are GARCH errors. The asymptotic distribution of the sums is derived under very mild conditions. Applications to unit root tests with ARFIMA–GARCH errors are discussed. It is shown that even when the errors exhibit both long‐range dependence and heavy‐tailed conditional heteroscedasticity, the asymptotic distributions of the Dickey–Fuller ρ‐type tests are functionals of standard Brownian motion rather than those of fractional Brownian motions. Some Monte Carlo simulations are provided to illustrate the finite sample properties of two of the tests. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于M-H抽样的贝叶斯非对称厚尾GARCH模型研究

针对非对称厚尾GARCH模型参数的预选分布很难确定的问题。对模型参数空间进行数据扩张,把模型中的厚尾残差分布表示成正态分布和逆伽玛分布的混合分布,然后通过对参数的后验条件分布进行变换获得参数的预选分布,从而利用M-H抽样实现了非对称厚尾GARCH模型的贝叶斯分析。中国原油收益率波动的实证研究发现中国原油收益率的波动具有高峰厚尾性但不存在"杠杆效应",样本内的预测评价发现基于M-H抽样的贝叶斯方法优于极大似然方法,说明了M-H抽样方案设计的有效性。     

带常数项的最优加权组合预测

We propose a model based on the optimal weighted combinational forecasting with constant terms,give formulae of the weights and the average errors as well as a rela- tion of the model and the corresponding model without constant terms,and compare these models.Finally an example was given,which showed that the fitting precision has been enhanced.     

深证成指周收益率波动性的实证研究

利用GARCH模型,对深圳成分指数的周收益率波动性进行了实证研究。以深证成指周收盘数据建立了GARCH模型,利用估计出的GARCH模型得到深证成指周收益率序列的条件方差的估计值,预测出深证成指周收益率序列未来若干期的条件方差。结果表明,深证成指周收益率序列的波动性可以用GARCH模型进行很好的拟合。     

GARCH模型在股票市场风险计量中的应用

本文以上证综指的日收益率为研究对象,运用GARCH模型簇分析上海股市日收益率波动的条件异方差性,计算每天的V aR值.实证研究表明,GARCH模型的V aR计算方法对我国股市风险的管理有较好的效果.     

基于Gini准则的客观组合评价方法研究——以高技术产业技术创新能力评价为例

为了解决多方法评价结论的非一致性问题,提出了一种基于Gini准则的客观组合评价方法。该方法按照每种评价方法的评价值所提供的信息纯度对每种评价方法赋予相应的权重,信息纯度越大,则相应地赋予越大的权重,然后按照赋予的权重进行客观组合评价。并以高技术产业技术创新能力评价为例,验证了Gini准则客观组合评价方法的可操作和相对有效性。基于Gini准则的客观组合评价方法为解决多方法评价结论的非一致性问题提供了新的思路,是组合评价方法研究的有益补充。     

预测组合权重更新的过程控制及分析

源于与决策分析的相关性,预测组合已经逐渐形成了一个重要的研究领域。为此,本文引进EWMA技术对预测组合权重更新的过程进行控制,从而提出一种能够应用于实际且简单有效的EWMA赋权方法。这种赋权方法能够确定预测组合权重应该何时更新,而不是机械地更新预测组合权重。本文额外针对各种赋权方法在旅游预测组合模型中的预测性能(全面预测性能和总均方根误差)和预测效率(权重更新频率)进行了经验评估。结果显示:EWMA赋权方法的预测性能优于传统的赋权方法,并与CUSUM赋权方法相似,同时该赋权方法获得了最小的权重更新频率。综合考虑预测性能和预测效率,EWMA赋权方法相比于其他赋权方法在旅游实际应用过程中更具优势。     

On spatial contagion and multivariate GARCH models

We propose a method for defining and measuring spatial contagion between two financial markets via conditional copulas. Some theoretical results on monotonicity and asymptotic properties of Gaussian copulas with respect to conditioning are presented. Next, we combine the spatial contagion approach with time series models. We investigate which model from a large family of multivariate GARCH is the best tool for modelling spatial contagion. In an empirical study, we show that among models designed for general fit, a two‐step model fitting procedure reduces the ability to describe the contagion effect. This is a feature of copula‐GARCH models. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.