PREVE, Daniel; ERIKSSON, Anders; YU, Jun - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2009
This paper introduces a parsimonious and yet flexible nonnegative semiparametric model to forecast financial volatility. The new model extends the linear nonnegative autoregressive model of Barndorff-Nielsen & Shephard (2001) and Nielsen & Shephard (2003) by way of a power transformation. It is...