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Item type:Publication, An Application of a Short Memory Model With Random Level Shifts to the Volatility of Latin American Stock Market Returns(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Economía, 2014)Empirical research indicates that the volatility of stock return time series have long memory. However, it has been demonstrated that short memory processes contaminated with random level shifts can often be confused as being long memory. Often this feature is referred to as spurious long memory. This paper represents an empirical study of the random level shift (RLS) model using the approach of Lu and Perron (2010) and Li and Perron (2013) for the volatility of daily stocks returns data for five Latin American countries. The RLS model consists of the sum of a short term memory component and a level shift component, where the level shift component is governed by a Bernoulli process with a shift probability α. The estimation results suggest that the level shifts in the volatility of daily stocks returns data are infrequent but once they are taken into account, the long memory characteristic and the GARCH effects disappear. An out-of-sample forecasting exercise is also provided. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, An Application of a Random Level Shifts Model to the Volatility of Peruvian Stock and Exchange Rates Returns(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Economía, 2014)The literature has shown that the volatility of Stock and Forex rate market returns shows the characteristic of long memory. Another fact that is shown in the literature is that this feature may be spurious and volatility actually consists of a short memory process contaminated with random level shifts. In this paper, we follow the approach of Lu and Perron (2010) and Li and Perron (2013) estimating a model of random level shifts (RLS) to the logarithm of the absolute value of Stock and Forex returns. The model consists of the sum of a short term memory component and a component of level shifts. The second component is speci.ed as the cumulative sum of a process that is zero with probability 1- α and is a random variable with probability α. The results show that there are level shifts that are rare but once they are taken into account, the characteristic or property of long memory disappears. Also, the presence of GARCH e¤ects is eliminated when included or deducted level shifts. An exercise of out-of-sample forecasting shows that the RLS model has better performance than traditional models for modeling long memory such as the models ARFIMA (p,d,q).