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Estimation for a nonstationary semi-strong GARCH(1,1) model with heavy-tailed errors

Linton, Oliver, Pan, Jiazhu and Wang, Hui (2010) Estimation for a nonstationary semi-strong GARCH(1,1) model with heavy-tailed errors. Econometric Theory, 26 (01). pp. 1-28. ISSN 0266-4666

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Identification Number: 10.1017/S0266466609090598

Abstract

This paper studies the estimation of a semi-strong GARCH(1,1) model when it does not have a stationary solution, where semi-strong means that we do not require the errors to be independent over time. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a semi-strong GARCH(1,1) process to have a unique stationary solution. For the nonstationary semi-strong GARCH(1,1) model, we prove that a local minimizer of the least absolute deviations (LAD) criterion converges at the rate to a normal distribution under very mild moment conditions for the errors. Furthermore, when the distributions of the errors are in the domain of attraction of a stable law with the exponent κ (1, 2), it is shown that the asymptotic distribution of the Gaussian quasi-maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) is non-Gaussian but is some stable law with the exponent κ (0, 2). The asymptotic distribution is difficult to estimate using standard parametric methods. Therefore, we propose a percentile-t subsampling bootstrap method to do inference when the errors are independent and identically distributed, as in Hall and Yao (2003). Our result implies that the least absolute deviations estimator (LADE) is always asymptotically normal regardless of whether there exists a stationary solution or not, even when the errors are heavy-tailed. So the LADE is more appealing when the errors are heavy-tailed. Numerical results lend further support to our theoretical results.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna...
Additional Information: © 2010 CUP
Divisions: Economics
STICERD
Financial Markets Group
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Q Science > QA Mathematics
Date Deposited: 13 Apr 2011 14:28
Last Modified: 17 Sep 2024 22:45
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35180

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