Filtering and Forecasting with Misspecified Arch Models II: Making the Right Forecast with the Wrong Model

Daniel B. Nelson and Dean Foster ()

No 132, NBER Technical Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: A companion paper (Nelson (1992)) showed that in data observed at high frequencies, an ARCH model may do a good job at estimating conditional variances, even when the ARCH model is severely misspecified. While such models may perform reasonably well at filtering (i.e., at estimating unobserved instantaneous conditional variances) they may perform disastrously at medium and long term forecasting. In this paper, we develop conditions under which a misspecified ARCH model successfully performs both tasks, filtering and forecasting. The key requirement (in addition to the conditions for consistent filtering) is that the ARCH model correctly specifies the functional form of the first two conditional moments of all state variables. We apply these results to a diffusion model employed in the options pricing literature, the stochastic volatility model of Hull and White (1987), Scott (1987), and Wiggins (1987).

Date: 1992-12
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Published as Nelson, Daniel B. and Dean P. Foster. "Filtering And Forecasting With Misspecified ARCH Models: Making The Right Forecast With The Wrong Model," Journal of Econometrics, 1995, v67(2), 303-335.

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