1999-02-01
Additive outliers, GARCH and forecasting volatility
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The Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity [GARCH] model is often used for forecasting stock market volatility. It is frequently found, however, that estimated residuals from GARCH models have excess kurtosis, even when one allows for conditional t-distributed errors. In this paper we examine if this feature can be due to neglected additive outliers [AOs], where we focus on the out-of-sample forecasting properties of GARCH models for AO-corrected returns. We find that models for AO-corrected data yield substantial improvement over GARCH and GARCH-t models for the original returns, and that this improvement holds for various samples, two forecast evaluation criteria and four stock markets.
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doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2070(98)00053-3, hdl.handle.net/1765/2174 | |
International Journal of Forecasting | |
Organisation | Erasmus School of Economics |
Franses, P. H., & Ghijsels, H. (1999). Additive outliers, GARCH and forecasting volatility. International Journal of Forecasting, 1–9. doi:10.1016/S0169-2070(98)00053-3 |