Forecasting volatility using double shrinkage methods

Mingmian Cheng, Norman Swanson () and Xiye Yang

Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, vol. 62, issue C, 46-61

Abstract: In this paper, we propose and evaluate a shrinkage based methodology that is designed to improve the accuracy of volatility forecasts. Our approach is based on a two-step procedure for extracting latent common volatility factors from a large dimensional and high-frequency dataset. In the first step, we apply either least absolute shrinkage operator (LASSO) or the elastic net (EN) shrinkage on estimated integrated volatilities, in order to select a subset of assets that are informative about the target asset. In the second step, we utilize (sparse) principal component analysis on the selected assets, in order to estimate latent return factors, which are in turn used to construct latent volatility factors. Our two-step method is found to yield more accurate volatility predictions than a variety of alternative models based on approaches such as direct application of (S)PCA and direct application of LASSO or EN shrinkage, when comparing out-of-sampleR2s and mean absolute forecasting errors, and when implementing predictive accuracy tests. Additionally model confidence sets are found to contain models solely based on our two-step approach. These forecasting gains are found to be robust to the use of original or log-scale realized volatility models, different data sampling frequencies, and different forecasting sub-periods.

Keywords: Forecasting; Latent volatility factor; Shrinkage; High-frequency and large dimensional data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C52 C53 C58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2021.01.007

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