Many researchers use GARCH models to generate volatility forecasts. We show, however, that such forecasts are too variable. To correct for this, we extend the GARCH model by distinguishing two regimes with different volatility levels. GARCH effects are allowed within each regime, so that our model generalizes existing regime-switching models that allow for ARCH terms only. The empirical applica...

This paper adopts a new approach to estimating the conditional probability distribution of asset returns. It is evident that the exact conditional mean or variance is inherently unobservable for time series. In practice, the popular way is to derive from different models such as GARCH by assuming distributions such as normal, student t, or skewed t. Thus the accuracy of forecast strongly depend...

A number of methods of evaluating the validity of interval forecasts of financial data are analysed, and illustrated using intraday FTSE100 index futures returns. Some existing interval forecast evaluation techniques, such as the Markov chain approach of Christoffersen (1998), are shown to be inappropriate in the presence of periodic heteroscedasticity. Instead, we consider a regression-based t...

This paper investigates if component GARCH models introduced by Engle and Lee (1999) and Ding and Granger (1996) can capture the long-range dependence observed in measures of time-series volatility. Long-range dependence is assessed through the sample autocorrelations, two popular semiparametric estimators of the long-memory parameter, and the parametric fractionally integrated GARCH (FIGARCH) ...

Many researchers use GARCH models to generate volatility forecasts. Using data on three major U.S. dollar exchange rates we show that such forecasts are too high in volatile periods. We argue that this is due to the high persistence of shocks in GARCH forecasts. To obtain more flexibility regarding volatility persistence, this paper generalizes the GARCH model by distinguishing two regimes with...

In this article, we analyze the time series of minute price returns on Bitcoin market through statistical models generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) family. We combine an approach that uses historical values and their volatilities—GARCH family models, with a so-called Mixture Distribution Hypothesis, which states dynamics are governed by information flow about mark...

Bollerslev’s (1986) standard GARCH(1,1) model has been successful in the literature of volatility modelling and forecasting in the past two decades. Many of its extensions are contributed to examine the stylized features often observed with financial asset data. One of the distinct success is Bollerslev and Ghysels’ (1996) periodic GARCH model, which takes into account periodic variation in the...

In the recent years, the use of GARCH type (especially, ARMA-GARCH) models and computational-intelligence-based techniques—Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) have been successfully used for financial forecasting. This paper deals with the application of ARMA-GARCH, recurrent SVM (RSVM) and recurrent RVM (RRVM) in volatility forecasting. Based on RSVM and RRVM, two G...

This study investigates the extent of the contribution of the original GARCH model to our understanding of the stochastic process underlying exchange rate price changes, and examines if the movement of current research to GARCH type models exclusively is warranted. GARCH(1,1) parameters are calculated on a yearly basis and used to standardize the exchange rate price change data. Frequency distr...