Heavy-Tailed Innovations in the R Package stochvol

We document how sampling from a conditional Student's t distribution is implemented in stochvol. Moreover, a simple example using EUR/CHF exchange rates illustrates how to use the augmented sampler. We conclude with results and implications. (author's abstract)

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kastner, Gregor
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 2015
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/4918/1/heavytails.pdf