Mixed Exponential Power Asymmetric Conditional Heteroskedasticity

Jeroen Rombouts and Bouaddi Mohammed ()
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Bouaddi Mohammed: HEC Montreal

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2009, vol. 13, issue 3, 32

Abstract: To match the stylized facts of high frequency financial time series precisely and parsimoniously, this paper presents a finite mixture of conditional exponential power distributions where each component exhibits asymmetric conditional heteroskedasticity. We provide weak stationarity conditions and unconditional moments to the fourth order. We apply this new class to Dow Jones index returns. We find that a two-component mixed exponential power distribution dominates mixed normal distributions with more components, and more parameters, both in-sample and out-of-sample. In contrast to mixed normal distributions, all the conditional variance processes become stationary. This happens because the mixed exponential power distribution allows for component-specific shape parameters so that it can better capture the tail behaviour. Therefore, the more general new class has attractive features over mixed normal distributions in our application: less components are necessary and the conditional variances in the components are stationary processes. Results on NASDAQ index returns are similar.

Date: 2009
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Working Paper: Mixed exponential power asymmetric conditional heteroskedasticity (2007)
Working Paper: MIXED EXPONENTIAL POWER ASYMMETRIC CONDITIONAL HETEROSKEDASTICITY (2007)
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