Forecast Combinations in the Presence of Structural Breaks: Evidence from U.S. Equity Markets

Davide De Gaetano
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Davide De Gaetano: University of Roma Tre, Via Silvio D’Amico, 77–00145 Rome, Italy

Mathematics, 2018, vol. 6, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: Realized volatility, building on the theory of a simple continuous time process, has recently received attention as a nonparametric ex-post estimate of the return variation. This paper addresses the problem of parameter instability due to the presence of structural breaks in realized volatility in the context of three HAR-type models. The analysis is conducted on four major U.S. equity indices. More specifically, a recursive testing methodology is performed to evaluate the null hypothesis of constant parameters, and then, the performance of several forecast combinations based on different weighting schemes is compared in an out-of-sample variance forecasting exercise. The main findings are the following: (i) the hypothesis of constant model parameters is rejected for all markets under consideration; (ii) in all cases, the recursive forecasting approach, which is appropriate in the absence of structural changes, is outperformed by forecast combination schemes; and (iii) weighting schemes that assign more weight in most recent observations are superior in the majority of cases.

Keywords: realized volatility; forecast combinations; structural breaks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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