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volatility of a time series. We derive the main properties of the model and apply it to all agricultural commodities in the … volatility process and, according to homoscedasticity tests, outperforms the ARCH(1) and GARCH(1,1) models, some of the most … popular approaches used in the literature to analyze price volatility. Keywords: Agricultural prices, volatility, GARCH models. …
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This paper investigates persistence of Swiss consumer price inflation using aggregate and disaggregate inflation data covering 1983-2008. We document that persistence of sectoral inflation rates is below persistence of aggregate inflation. Our main finding is that inflation persistence...
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day. However, the volatility persistence of ARCH-type models is reflected with relatively high VaR estimates for longer … specified time horizon. -- Bootstrapping ; inflation ; inflation-indexed futures ; Mexico ; Value at Risk ; volatility …
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The estimation of inflation volatility is important to Central Banks as it guides their policy initiatives for … Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) family with a view to providing a parsimonious approximation to the dynamics of Nigeria's inflation volatility … impact of inflation shocks on headline volatility die out rather quickly. Secondly, substantial evidence of asymmetric effect …
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In assessing drivers of commodity prices and volatility at this stage of the current super-cycle in commodities (year …
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In this paper we develop a general framework to analyze state space models with time-varying system matrices where time variation is driven by the score of the conditional likelihood. We derive a new filter that allows for the simultaneous estimation of the state vector and of the time-varying...
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This paper discusses estimation of US inflation volatility using time varying parameter models, in particular whether … it should be modelled as a stationary or random walk stochastic process. Specifying inflation volatility as an unbounded … frequency behaviour commonly observed in estimates of volatility. We therefore propose an alternative model with a change …
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volatility estimation is considered. The empirical analysis is performed on futures contracts of both the Standard and Poors 500 … importance of taking asymmetric effects (leverage effects) into account in volatility forecasts when it comes to risk management …
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The macroeconomic outcomes of oil price fluctuations have been at the forefront of the debate among economists, financial analysts and policymakers over the last decades. Among others, the oil price-food price nexus has particularly received a great deal of attention. While an abundant body of...
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This study compares the performance of GARCH-Type models in modelling inflation volatility in Nigeria covering the … asymmetric volatility models. The empirical examination observes evidence of volatility persistence in the consumer price indices … the role of structural breaks for inflation rate volatility in Nigeria will yield misleading and invalid policy …
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