Interval estimation of the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model

Ngai Chan, Liang Peng and Rongmao Zhang ()

TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2012, vol. 21, issue 3, 546-565

Abstract: It is known that the tail index of a GARCH model is determined by a moment equation, which involves the underlying unknown parameters of the model. A tail index estimator can therefore be constructed by solving the sample moment equation with the unknown parameters being replaced by its quasi-maximum likelihood estimates (QMLE). To construct a confidence interval for the tail index, one needs to estimate the non-trivial asymptotic variance of the QMLE. In this paper, an empirical likelihood method is proposed for interval estimation of the tail index. One advantage of the proposed method is that interval estimation can still be achieved without having to estimate the complicated asymptotic variance. A simulation study confirms the advantage of the proposed method. Copyright Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 2012

Keywords: Empirical likelihood; GARCH model; Tail index; 62M10; 62E20; 60F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s11749-011-0264-0

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