Forecasting Performance of Asymmetric GARCH Stock Market Volatility Models

We investigate the asymmetry between positive and negative returns in their effect on conditional variance of the stock market index and incorporate the characteristics to form an out-of-sample volatility forecast. Contrary to prior evidence, however, the results in this paper suggest that no asymme...

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Main Author: Hojin Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy 2009-12-01
Series:East Asian Economic Review
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.JEAI.2009.13.2.203