TestingforARCH--------------------------------------------------------------------------------TheresidualsfromapreliminaryOLSestimationcanbetestedforARCHbehaviour.Testingapproachesareasfollows.Testsfornon-normalitycanbeconsidered.IfthenormalityassumptionisusedtodescribetheconditionalerrordistributionthenapropertyofARCHisthattheunconditionalerrordistributionwillbenon-normalwithhighvaluesforkurtosis...[
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ARCHModelsARCH(autoregressiveconditionalheteroskedasticity)modelsrecognizethepresenceofsuccessiveperiodsofrelativevolatilityandstability.Theerrorvariance,conditionalonpastinformation,evolvesovertimeasafunctionofpasterrors.ThemodelwasintroducedbyEngle[1982].Bollerslev[1986]proposedtheGARCH(generalizedARCH)conditionalvariancespecificationthatallowsforaparsimoniousparameterisationofthelagstructure.Co...[
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