A Nonlinear Threshold Model for the Dependence of Extremes of Stationary Sequences

Oscar Martinez and Jose Olmo
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Oscar Martinez: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

No 08/08, City University Economics Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, City University, London

Abstract: One of the main implications of the effcient market hypothesis (EMH) is that expected future returns on financial assets are not predictable if investors are risk neutral. In this paper we argue that financial time series offer more information than that this hypothesis seems to supply. In particular we postulate that runs of very large returns can be predictable for small time periods. In order to prove this we propose a TAR(3,1)-GARCH(1,1) model that is able to describe two different types of extreme events: a first type generated by large uncertainty regimes where runs of extremes are not predictable and a second type where extremes come from isolated dread/joy events. This model is new in the literature in nonlinear processes. Its novelty resides on two features of the model that make it different from previous TAR methodologies. The regimes are motivated by the occurrence of extreme values and the threshold variable is defined by the shock affecting the process in the preceding period. In this way this model is able to uncover dependence and clustering of extremes in high as well as in low volatility periods. This model is tested with data from General Motors stock prices corresponding to two crises that had a substantial impact in fnancial markets worldwide; the Black Monday of October 1987 and September 11th, 2001. By analyzing the periods around these crises we find evidence of statistical significance of our model and thereby of predictability of extremes for September 11th but not for Black Monday. These findings support the hypotheses of a big negative event producing runs of negative returns in the first case, and of the burst of a worldwide stock market bubble in the second example.

Keywords: Asymmetries, crises; Extreme values; Hypothesis testing; Leverage effect; Nonlinearities; Threshold models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-05
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