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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Contributions to practice |
| Title | A new approach to markov-switching GARCH models |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Journal of Financial Econometrics |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1479-8409 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Number | 4 |
| Page Range | 493 - 530 |
| Date | 2004 |
| Abstract Text | The use of Markov-switching models to capture the volatility dynamics of financial time series has grown considerably during past years, in part because they give rise to a plausible interpretation of nonlinearities. Nevertheless, GARCH-type models remain ubiquitous in order to allow for nonlinearities associated with time-varying volatility. Existing methods of combining the two approaches are unsatisfactory, as they either suffer from severe estimation difficulties or else their dynamic properties are not well understood. In this article we present a new Markov-switching GARCH model that overcomes both of these problems. Dynamic properties are derived and their implications for the volatility process discussed. We argue that the disaggregation of the variance process offered by the new model is more plausible than in the existing variants. The approach is illustrated with several exchange rate return series. The results suggest that a promising volatility model is an independent switching GARCH process with a possibly skewed conditional mixture density |
| Official URL | http://jfec.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/4/493.short |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1093/jjfinec/nbh020 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:4472 |
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