F orecasting the volatility of a financial asset has wide implications in finance. Conditional variance extracted from the GARCH framework could be a suitable proxy of financial asset volatility. Option pricing, portfolio optimization, and risk management are examples of implications of conditional variance forecasting. One of the most recent methods of volatility forecasting is Real...

This paper considers simultaneous modelling of seasonality, slowly changing unconditional variance and conditional heteroskedasticity in high-frequency nancial returns. A new approach, called a seasonal SEMIGARCH model, is proposed to perform this by introducing multiplicative seasonal and trend components into the GARCH model. A data-driven semiparametric algorithm is developed for estimating ...

This paper develops the method for pricing bivariate contingent claims under General Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroskedastic (GARCH) process. In order to provide a general framework being able to accommodate skewness, leptokurtosis, fat tails as well as the time varying volatility that are often found in financial data, generalized hyperbolic (GH) distribution is used for innovations. As t...

This paper performs an experiment to forecast stock market movement in India using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). This model is named Genetically optimized Neural Network (GNN). We have tested this newly created model against traditional ARCH/GARCH models using hypothesis testing (z-test).We have used different error metrics like Average Absolute Error (AAE), Mean A...

Daily financial returns (and daily stock returns, in particular) are commonly modeled as GARCH(1,1) processes. Here we test this specification using new model evaluation technology developed in Ashley and Patterson (2006), which examines the ability of the estimated model to reproduce features of particular interest: various aspects of nonlinear serial dependence, in the present instance. Using...

In recent decades, the momentum of global environmental protection has culminated in the Kyoto Agreement of 1998, placing the limelight on “green” issues. This paper argues that the protection of environmental systems involves a fragile balance between the costs of environment preservation and the profit motivations of industrialists. In particular, one of the issues that needs to be addressed ...

This study examines three alternative models of correcting for heteroskedasticity in wheat yield: the time trend variance, the GARCH, and an econometric model that includes the potential sources of heteroskedasticity. Nonnested test results suggest that modeling the sources of heteroskedasticity is the preferred procedure. Including potential sources of heteroskedasticity as explanatory variabl...