Time series models with an EGB2 conditional distribution

Michele Caivano and Andrew Harvey

No 947, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: A time series model in which the signal is buried in non-Gaussian noise may throw up observations that are outliers when judged by the Gaussian yardstick. We describe an observation-driven model, based on an exponential generalized beta distribution of the second kind (EGB2), in which the signal is a linear function of past values of the score of the conditional distribution. This specification produces a model that is not only easy to implement, but that also facilitates the development of a comprehensive and relatively straightforward theory for the asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator. The model is fitted to US macroeconomic time series and compared with Gaussian and Student-t models. A theory is then developed for an EGARCH model based on the EGB2 distribution and the model is fitted to exchange rate data. Finally, dynamic location and scale models are combined and applied to data on the UK rate of inflation.

Keywords: : beta distribution; EGARCH; fat tails; score; robustness; winsorizing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01
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