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DISSERTATION PAPER Modeling and F orecasting the V olatility of the EUR / ROL E xchange R ate U sing GARCH M odels. Student : Becar Iuliana Supervisor: Professor Moisa Altar. Table of Contents. The importance of forecasting exchange rate volatility. Data description.
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DISSERTATION PAPERModeling and Forecasting the Volatility of the EUR/ROLExchange Rate Using GARCHModels. Student :Becar Iuliana Supervisor: Professor Moisa Altar
Table of Contents • The importance of forecasting exchange rate volatility. • Data description. • Model estimates and forecasting performances. • Concluding remarks.
Why model and forecast volatility? • Volatility is one of the most important concepts in the whole of finance. • ARCH models offered new tools for measuring risk, and its impact on return. • Volatility of exchange rates is of importance because of the uncertainty it creates for prices of exports and imports, for the value of international reserves and for open positions in foreign currency.
Volatility Models. • ARCH/GARCH models. Engle(1982) Bollerslev(1986) Baillie, Bollerslev and Mikkelsen (1996) • ARFIMA models. Granger (1980)
Data description • Data series: nominal daily EUR/ROL exchange rates • Time length: 04:01:1999-11:06:2004 • 1384 nominal percentage returns
Heteroscedasticity The Daily Return Series Autocorrelation and Partial autocorrelation of the Return Series • The returns are not homoskedastic. • Low serial dependence in returns. • The Ljung-Box statistic for 20 lags equals 27.392 [0.125].
Autocorrelation and Partial Autocorrelation of Squared Returns The Ljung-Box statistic for 20 lags equals 151.01[0.000] ARCH 1 test: 17.955 [0.0000]** ARCH 2 test: 18.847 [0.0000]**
Stationarity Unit Root Tests for EUR/ROL return series.
Model estimates and forecasting performances. • Methodology. Ox Professional 3.30 G@RCH4.0 4.01.1999-30.12.2002 (1018 observations) for model estimation 06.01.2003-11.06.2004 (366 observations) for out of sample forecast evaluation. • The Models. Two distributions: Student, Skewed Student, QMLE. The Mean Equations: 1. A constant mean 2. An ARFIMA(1,da,0) mean 3. An ARFIMA(0, da,1) mean
The variance equations. • GARCH(1,1) and FIGARCH(1,d,1) without the constant term and with a non-trading day dummy variable. The estimated twelve models. • Examining the models page 30 to 34 the conclusions are: • The estimated coefficients are significantly different from zero at the 10% level. • the ARFIMA coefficient lies between which implies stationarity. • all variance coefficients are positiveand
In-sample model evaluation. Residual tests. GARCH models. 1 EK-Excess Kurtosis;* Q-Statistics on Standardized Residuals with 50 lags; ** Q-Statistics on Squared Standardized Residuals 50 lags; *** ARCH test with 5 lags; P-values in brackets.
In-sample model evaluation. Residual tests. FIGARCH models. 1 EK-Excess Kurtosis;* Q-Statistics on Standardized Residuals with 50 lags; ** Q-Statistics on Squared Standardized Residuals 50 lags; *** ARCH test with 5 lags; P-values in brackets.
Out-of-sample Forecast Evaluation • Forecast methodology - sample window: 1018 observations - at each step, the 1 step ahead dynamic forecast is stored for the conditional variance and the conditional mean -dynamic forecast is programmed in OxEdit G@RCH3.0 package • Benchmark: ex-post volatility = squared returns.
Measuring Forecast Accuracy. • The Mincer-Zarnowitz regression: • The Mean Absolute Error: • Root Mean Square Error (standard error): • Theil's inequality coefficient -Theil's U:
One Step Ahead Forecast Evaluation Measures. 1. The Mincer-Zarnowitz regression
Concludingremarks. • In-sample analysis: Residual tests: -all models may be appropriate. -the Student distribution is better than the Skewed Student. • Out-of-sample analysis: -the FIGARCH models are superior. -for the conditional mean the Student distribution is superior. -the two ARFIMA mean equations don't provide a better forecast of the conditional mean. - for the conditional variance the Skewed Student distribution is superior.
Concludingremarks. • Model construction problems; • Further research: -option prices, which reflect the market’s expectation of volatility over the remaining life span of the option. -daily realized volatility can be computed as the sum of squared intraday returns
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Appendix 1. The ARMA (0, 0), GARCH (1, 1) Skewed Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details see Appendix 1, page 45.
Appendix 2 The ARMA (0, 0), GARCH (1, 1) Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 2, page 47.
Appendix 3 The ARFIMA (1, da, 0),GARCH (1, 1) Skewed Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 3, page 49.
Appendix 4 The ARFIMA (1, da, 0),GARCH (1, 1) Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 4, page 52.
Appendix 5 The ARFIMA (0, da,1),GARCH (1, 1) Skewed Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 5, page 54.
Appendix 6 The ARFIMA (0, da,1),GARCH (1, 1) Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 6, page 56.
Appendix 7 The ARMA (0, 0), FIGARCH-BBM (1,d,1) Skewed Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 7, page 59.
Appendix 8 The ARMA (0, 0), FIGARCH-BBM (1,d,1) Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 8, page 61.
Appendix 9 The ARFIMA (1,da,0), FIGARCH-BBM (1,d,1) Skewed Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 9, page 63.
Appendix 10 The ARFIMA (1,da,0), FIGARCH-BBM (1,d,1) Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 10, page 66.
Appendix 11 The ARFIMA (0,da,1), FIGARCH-BBM (1,d,1) Skewed Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 11, page 68.
Appendix 12 The ARFIMA (0,da,1), FIGARCH-BBM (1,d,1) Student model. Robust Standard Errors (Sandwich formula) For more details, see Appendix 12, page 70.
Stationarity tests. Appendix 13. 1. Dickey-Fuller Test.
Appendix 14. ADF Test.