A Stochastic Volatility Model With Fat Tails Skewness And Leverage Effects
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A Stochastic Volatility Model with Fat Tails, Skewness and Leverage Effects
Author | : Daniel R. Smith |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2007 |
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We develop a new stochastic volatility model that captures the three most important features of stock index returns: negative correlation between returns and future volatility, excess kurtosis and negative skewness. We estimate the model parameters by maximum likelihood using a numerical integration-based filter to deal with the latent nature of volatility. In this approach different models are defined by varying the joint density of returns and future volatility conditional on current volatility. Our innovation is to construct the joint conditional density using a copula. This approach is tremendously flexible and allows the econometrician to choose the marginal distribution of both returns and volatility independently and then stitch them together using a copula, which is also chosen independently, to form the joint density. We also develop conditional moment-based model specification tests for the extent to which the various stochastic volatility models are able to capture the skewness and excess kurtosis we observe in practice. The parameter estimates and conditional moment tests indicate that leverage effects, excess kurtosis and skewness are all crucial for modeling stock returns.
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