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According to the rising “Google econometrics” literature, Google queries may help predict economic activity. The aim of our paper is to test if these data can enhance predictions for youth unemployment in France. As we have on the one hand weekly series on web search queries and on the other...
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forecasting volatility model with the most appropriate error distribution. The results suggest the presence of leverage effect … validate this result. The last twenty eight days out-of-sample forecast adjudged Power-GARCH (1, 1, 1) in student's t error … forecasting model that could guarantee a sound policy decisions. …
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forecasting volatility model with the most appropriate error distribution. The results suggest the presence of leverage effect … validate this result. The last twenty eight days out-of-sample forecast adjudged Power-GARCH (1, 1, 1) in student's t error … forecasting model that could guarantee a sound policy decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489480
The internal models amendment to the Basel Accord allows banks to use internal models to forecast Value-at-Risk (VaR) thresholds, which are used to calculate the required capital that banks must hold in reserve as a protection against negative changes in the value of their trading portfolios. As...
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This paper compares the forecasting performance of symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatility models of exchange … rate returns of OECD countries. The results show that the forecasting performances of asymmetric conditional models are … are characterized by excess kurtosis and fat tails. We also found some evidence of out-of sample forecasting that the …
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applications illustrate model search strategies for the SP500 stock index, comparing the performances to a standard GARCH model. …
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large number of forecasting models have been designed to forecast crude oil prices' volatility, so far the relative … performance evaluation of competing forecasting models remains an exercise that is unidimensional in nature. To be more specific …
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We present an estimation and forecasting method, based on a differential evolution MCMC method, for inference in GARCH … nearly all series. Finally, we carry out a forecasting exercise to evaluate the usefulness of structural break models. …
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Portuguese Stock Index PSI-20. By using simple GARCH, GARCH-M, Exponential GARCH (EGARCH) and Threshold ARCH (TARCH) models, we … compare the forecasting performance of the various volatility models in the sample periods before and after the terrorist …
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We present a medium-scale dynamic factor model to estimate and forecast the rate of growth of the Spanish economy in the very short term. The intermediate size of the model overcomes the serious specification problems associated with large scale-models and the implicit loss of information of...
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