In this paper, we estimate GARCH, EGARCH, and GJR-GARCH models assuming normal and heavy-tailed distribution (i.e., GED). Results suggest that when the heavy-tailed distribution is considered, the persistence has found to be reduced in all the cases. Findings also reveal that positive shocks are more common than the negative shocks in this market.

Most studies on the asymmetric and non-linear properties of US business cycles exclude the dimension of asymmetric conditional volatility. Engle (1982) proposes an autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) model to capture the time-varying volatility of inflation rates in the United Kingdom. Weiss (1984) finds evidence of ARCH in the US industrial production. The ARCH model is then e...

Since their introduction by Engle (1982) and Bollerslev (1986), respectively, autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (ARCH) and generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (GARCH) models have found extraordinarily wide use. The survey article by Bollerslev, Chou, and Kroner (1982) cited more than 300 papers applying ARCH, GARCH, and other closely related models. As they showed, A...

This paper provides a new empirical guidance for modeling a skewed and fat-tailed error distribution underlying the traditional GARCH models for equity returns based on empirical findings on Realized Volatility (RV), constructed from the summation of higher-frequency squared (demeaned) returns. Based on an 80-year sample of U.S. daily stock market returns, I find that the distribution of monthl...

The paper estimate 1-day Value at Risk (VaR) taking into consideration the financial integration of Indian capital market (BSE-SENSEX and NSE-NIFTY) with other global indicators and its own volatility using daily returns covering the period January 2003 to December 2009. The paper specifies a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) framework to model the phenomena of v...

The univariate Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heterscedasticity (GARCH) model has successfully captured the symmetric conditional volatility in a wide range of time series financial returns. Although multivariate effects across assets can be captured through modelling the conditional correlations, the univariate GARCH model has two important restrictions in that it: (1) does not accommo...