Fryzlewicz, Piotr 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9676-902X and Subba Rao, Suhasini
(2014)
Multiple-change-point detection for auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic processes.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology, 76 (5).
pp. 903-924.
ISSN 1369-7412
Abstract
The emergence of the recent financial crisis, during which markets frequently underwent changes in their statistical structure over a short period of time, illustrates the importance of non-stationary modelling in financial time series. Motivated by this observation, we propose a fast, well performing and theoretically tractable method for detecting multiple change points in the structure of an auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic model for financial returns with piecewise constant parameter values. Our method, termed BASTA (binary segmentation for transformed auto-regressive conditional heteroscedasticity), proceeds in two stages: process transformation and binary segmentation. The process transformation decorrelates the original process and lightens its tails; the binary segmentation consistently estimates the change points. We propose and justify two particular transformations and use simulation to fine-tune their parameters as well as the threshold parameter for the binary segmentation stage. A comparative simulation study illustrates good performance in comparison with the state of the art, and the analysis of the Financial Times Stock Exchange FTSE 100 index reveals an interesting correspondence between the estimated change points and major events of the recent financial crisis. Although the method is easy to implement, ready-made R software is provided.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Royal Statistical Society |
| Divisions: | Statistics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2013 13:53 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2024 17:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54933 |
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