ASYMPTOTIC INFERENCE FOR AR MODELS WITH HEAVY-TAILED G-GARCH NOISES

Rongmao Zhang and Shiqing Ling

Econometric Theory, 2015, vol. 31, issue 4, 880-890

Abstract: It is well known that the least squares estimator (LSE) of an AR(p) model with i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed) noises is n1/αL(n)-consistent when the tail index α of the noise is within (0,2) and is n1/2-consistent when α ≥ 2, where L(n) is a slowly varying function. When the noises are not i.i.d., however, the case is far from clear. This paper studies the LSE of AR(p) models with heavy-tailed G-GARCH(1,1) noises. When the tail index α of G-GARCH is within (0,2), it is shown that the LSE is not a consistent estimator of the parameters, but converges to a ratio of stable vectors. When α ε [2,4], it is shown that the LSE is n1–2/α-consistent if α ε (2,4), logn-consistent if α = 2, and n1/2 / logn-consistent if α = 4, and its limiting distribution is a functional of stable processes. Our results are significantly different from those with i.i.d. noises and should warn practitioners in economics and finance of the implications, including inconsistency, of heavy-tailed errors in the presence of conditional heterogeneity.

Date: 2015
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