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QUASI-MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF SEMI-STRONG GARCH MODELS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

Juan Carlos Escanciano*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
*
*Address correspondence to Juan Carlos Escanciano, Indiana University, Department of Economics, 100 S. Woodlawn, Wylie Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405-7104, U.S.A.; e-mail: jescanci@indiana.edu.

Abstract

This note proves the consistency and asymptotic normality of the quasi–maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) of the parameters of a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) model with martingale difference centered squared innovations. The results are obtained under mild conditions and generalize and improve those in Lee and Hansen (1994, Econometric Theory 10, 29–52) for the local QMLE in semistrong GARCH(1,1) models. In particular, no restrictions on the conditional mean are imposed. Our proofs closely follow those in Francq and Zakoïan (2004, Bernoulli 10, 605–637) for independent and identically distributed innovations.

Type
Notes and Problems
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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