Dynamic Models for Volatility and Heavy Tails
With Applications to Financial and Economic Time Series
1st Edition
Published on 25. June 2013
978-1-107-33127-3 (ISBN)
Description
The volatility of financial returns changes over time and, for the last thirty years, Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models have provided the principal means of analyzing, modeling and monitoring such changes. Taking into account that financial returns typically exhibit heavy tails - that is, extreme values can occur from time to time - Andrew Harvey's new book shows how a small but radical change in the way GARCH models are formulated leads to a resolution of many of the theoretical problems inherent in the statistical theory. The approach can also be applied to other aspects of volatility. The more general class of Dynamic Conditional Score models extends to robust modeling of outliers in the levels of time series and to the treatment of time-varying relationships. The statistical theory draws on basic principles of maximum likelihood estimation and, by doing so, leads to an elegant and unified treatment of nonlinear time-series modeling.
Reviews / Votes
'It offers a comprehensive view of DCS models and is self-contained in that it includes the necessary statistical theory for understanding and applying them. Empirical examples help the reader appreciate the potential of these models.' Journal of Economic Literature 'Besides being invaluable to researchers in time series, the book will be of immense help to practitioners, particularly in the fields of econometrics and finance.' Sugata Sen Roy, Mathematical ReviewsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
14 Tables, unspecified; 43 Line drawings, unspecified
File size
3,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-107-33127-3 (9781107331273)
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Additional editions
Andrew C. Harvey
Dynamic Models for Volatility and Heavy Tails
With Applications to Financial and Economic Time Series
Book
04/2013
Cambridge University Press
€136.80
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Person
Andrew Harvey is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. He has published more than one hundred articles in journals and edited volumes and is the author of three books, The Econometric Analysis of Time Series, Time Series Models, and Forecasting and Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter (Cambridge University Press, 1989). He is one of the developers of the STAMP computer package.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Statistical distributions and asymptotic theory; 3. Location; 4. Scale; 5. Location/scale models for non-negative variables; 6. Dynamic kernel density estimation and time-varying quantiles; 7. Multivariate models, correlation and association; 8. Conclusions and further directions.
