This paper studies the nonlinear dependences in daily returns of 40 French stocks and two indices, the Vontobel-Datastream index and the official French index CAC40. These returns are studied during a period of twenty-four years beginning January 1, 1975. The rescaled range analysis of Hurst and...

This paper compares the forecasting performance of different models which have been proposed for forecasting in the presence of structural breaks. These models differ in their treatment of the break process, the parameters defining the model which applies in each regime and the out-of-sample...

We present a general class of nonlinear time series Markov regime-switching models for seasonal data which may exhibit periodic features in the hidden Markov process as well as in the laws of motion in each of the regimes. This class of models allows for nontrivial dependencies between seasonal,...