Anticipating Long-Term Stock Market Volatility

Christian Conrad and Karin Loch

No 535, Working Papers from University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between long-term U.S. stock market risks and the macroeconomic environment using a two component GARCH-MIDAS model. Our results provide strong evidence in favor of counter-cyclical behavior of long-term stock market volatility. Among the various macro variables in our dataset the term spread, housing starts, corporate profits and the unemployment rate have the highest predictive ability for stock market volatility . While the term spread and housing starts are leading variables with respect to stock market volatility, for corporate profits and the unemployment rate expectations data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters regarding the future development are most informative. Our results suggest that macro variables carry information on stock market risk beyond that contained in lagged realized volatilities, in particular when it comes to long-term forecasting.

Keywords: Volatility Components; MIDAS; Survey Data; Macro Finance Link (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 C58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10-05
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