Conditionally heteroscedastic factorial HMMs for time series in finance

Mohamed Saidane and Christian Lavergne

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2007, vol. 23, issue 6, 503-529

Abstract: In this article, we develop a new approach within the framework of asset pricing models that incorporates two key features of the latent volatility: co‐movement among conditionally heteroscedastic financial returns and switching between different unobservable regimes. By combining latent factor models with hidden Markov chain models we derive a dynamical local model for segmentation and prediction of multivariate conditionally heteroscedastic financial time series. We concentrate more precisely on situations where the factor variances are modelled by univariate generalized quadratic autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic processes. The expectation maximization algorithm that we have developed for the maximum likelihood estimation is based on a quasi‐optimal switching Kalman filter approach combined with a generalized pseudo‐Bayesian approximation, which yield inferences about the unobservable path of the common factors, their variances and the latent variable of the state process. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations and preliminary experiments obtained with daily foreign exchange rate returns of eight currencies show promising results. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2007
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