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Abstract: This work extends the analysis of Baillie, Bollerslev and Mikkelsen (1996) and Bollerslev and Mikkelsen (1996) on the estimation and identification problems of the Fractionally Integrated Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastik (FIGARCH) model. We assess the power of different information criteria and tests in identifying the presence of long memory in the conditional variances. The analysis is performed with a Montecarlo simulation study. In detail, the focus on the Akaike, Hannan-Quinn, Shibata and Schwarz information criteria and on the Jarque-Bera test for normality, Box-Pierce test for residual correlation and Engle test for ARCH effects. This study verifies that information criteria clearly distinguish the presence of long memory while tests do not evidence any difference between the fitted long and short memory models. An empirical application is provided; it analyses, on a high frequency dataset, the returns of the FIB30, the future on the MIB30, the Italian stock market index of highly capitalized firms.
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Massimiliano Caporin: mcaporin@unive.it
This paper was presented at the SIS 2002 Conference (Italian Statistical society annual meeting) held in Milan, University Bicocca, 5-7 June 2002. A short version of this work can be found in the proceedings of the conference
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Caporin, M. Identification of long memory in GARCH models. Statistical Methods & Applications 12, 133–151 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-003-0056-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-003-0056-0