Volatility models with innovations from new maximum entropy densities at work

Arbeitspapier

Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) processes have become very popular as models for financial return data because they are able to capture volatility clustering as well as leptokurtic unconditional distributions which result from the assumption of conditionally normal error distributions. In contrast, Bollerslev (1987) and several follow-ups provided evidence that starting with leptokurtic and possibly skewed (conditional) error distributions will achieve better results. Parallel to these exible but to some extend arbitrary chosen parametric distributions, recent years saw a rise in suggestions for maximum entropy distributions (e.g. Rockinger and Jondeau, 2002, Park and Bera, 2009 or Fischer and Herrmann, 2010). Within this contribution we provide a comprehensive comparison between both different ME densities and their parametric competitors within different generalized GARCH models such as APARCH and GJR-GARCH.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IWQW Discussion Papers ; No. 03/2010

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: GARCH ; APARCH ; Entropy density ; Skewness ; Kurtosis ; Börsenkurs ; Volatilität ; ARCH-Modell ; Entropie ; Statistische Verteilung ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fischer, Matthias J. ; Gao, Yang ; Herrmann, Klaus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung (IWQW)
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30185
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET