Nonstationary Nonlinear Heteroskedasticity: An Alternative to ARCH

Joon Park

No CIRJE-F-86, CIRJE F-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: In this paper, we consider time series with the conditional heteroskedasticities that are given by nonlinear functions of integrated processes. Such time series are said to have nonlinear nonstationary heteroskedasticity (NNH), and the functions generating conditional heterogeneity are called heterogeneity generating functions (HGF's). Various statistical properties of time series with NNH are investigated for a wide class of HGF's. For NNH models with a variety of HGF's, volatility clustering and leptokurticity, which are common features of ARCH type models, are manifest. In particular, it is shown that the sample autocorrelations of their squared processes vanish only very slowly, or do not even vanish at all, in the limit. Volatility clustering is therefore well expected. The NNH models with certain types of HGF's indeed have sample characteristics that are very similar to those of ARCH type models. Moreover, the sample kurtosis of the NNH model either diverges or has a stable limiting distribution with support truncated on the left by the kurtosis of the innovations. This would well explain the presence of leptokurticity in many observed time series data. To illustrate the empirical relevancy of our model, we analyze the spreads between the forward and spot rates of USD/DM exchange rates. It is found that the conditional variances of the spreads can be well modeled as a nonlinear function of the levels of the spot rates.

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2000-07
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