This paper derives the asymptotic distribution of the nonparametric neural network estimator of the Lyapunov exponent in a noisy system. Positivity of the Lyapunov exponent is an operational definition of chaos. We introduce a statistical framework for testing the chaotic hypothesis based on the...

We develop order <italic>T</italic>⁻¹ asymptotic expansions for the quasi-maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) and a two-step approximate QMLE in the GARCH(l,l) model. We calculate the approximate mean and skewness and, hence, the Edgeworth-B distribution function. We suggest several methods of bias reduction...

Specification tests for conditional heteroskedasticity that are derived under the assumption that the density of the innovation is Gaussian may not be powerful in light of the recent empirical results that the density is not Gaussian. We obtain specification tests for conditional...

For vectors z and w and scalar v, let r(v, z, w) be a function that can be nonparametrically estimated consistently and asymptotically normally, such as a distribution, density, or conditional mean regression function. We provide consistent, asymptotically normal nonparametric estimators for the...