Indirect estimation of large conditionally heteroskedastic factor models, with an application to the Dow 30 stocks

Gabriele Fiorentini, Giorgio Calzolari and Enrique Sentana

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Abstract: We derive indirect estimators of conditionally heteroskedastic factor models in which the volatilities of common and idiosyncratic factors depend on their past unobserved values by calibrating the score of a Kalman-filter approximation with inequality constraints on the auxiliary model parameters. We also propose alternative indirect estimators for large-scale models, and explain how to apply our procedures to many other dynamic latent variable models. We analyse the small sample behaviour of our indirect estimators and several likelihood-based procedures through an extensive Monte Carlo experiment with empirically realistic designs. Finally, we apply our procedures to weekly returns on the Dow 30 stocks.

Keywords: ARCH; Idiosyncratic risk; Inequality constraints; Kalman filter; Sequential estimators; Simulation estimators; Volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C15 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
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