GARCH models are commonly used as latent processes in econometrics, financial economics, and macroeconomics. Yet no exact likelihood analysis of these models has been provided so far. In this paper we outline the issues and suggest a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm which allows the...

Generalizamos el algoritmo EM espectral para modelos factoriales dinámicos de Fiorentini, Galesi y Sentana (2014) a modelos bifactoriales con factores tanto globales como regionales. Aprovechamos la raleza de las matrices de coefi cientes de manera que se puedan estimar dichos modelos por...

Realizamos dos contribuciones complementarias para estimar eficientemente modelos factoriales dinámicos: un algoritmo EM espectral y un procedimiento de inferencia indirecta iterada rapidísimo para modelos ARMA sin pérdida de eficiencia asintótica para cualquier número finito de...

Documentamos una subida y una caída del tipo de interés natural (r*) para varias economías avanzadas, que comienza a aumentar en la década de los sesenta y alcanza su punto álgido a finales de los años ochenta. Llegamos a esta conclusión después de demostrar que el modelo de Laubach y...

We derive the statistical properties of the SNP densities of Gallant and Nychka (1987). We show that these densities, which are always positive, are more flexible than truncated Gram-Charlier expansions with positivity restrictions. We use the SNP densities for financial derivatives valuation....

We show that the distribution of any portfolio whose components jointly follow a location-scale mixture of normals can be characterised solely by its mean, variance and skewness. Under this distributional assumption, we derive the mean-variance-skewness frontier in closed form, and show that it...

We derive Lagrange Multiplier and Likelihood Ratio specifi cation tests for the null hypotheses of multivariate normal and Student t innovations using the Generalised Hyperbolic distribution as our alternative hypothesis. We decompose the corresponding Lagrange Multiplier-type tests into...

We conduct an extensive empirical analysis of VIX derivative valuation models before, during and after the 2008-2009 fi nancial crisis. Since the restrictive mean reversion and heteroskedasticity features of existing models yield large distortions during the crisis, we propose generalisations...

En este trabajo comparamos expansiones seminoparamétricas de la distribución Gamma con expansiones de Laguerre alternativas, demostrando que amplían sustancialmente el rango de momentos factibles de variables aleatorias positivas. Posteriormente, combinamos dichas expansiones con una versión...