Modeling heteroscedasticity in daily foreign-exchange rates
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Journal Article
This article estimates autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic (ARCH) and generalized ARCH (GARCH) models for five foreign currencies, using 10 years of daily data, a variety of ARCH and GARCH specifications, a number of nonnormal error densities, and a comprehensive set of diagnostic checks. It finds that ARCH and GARCH models can usually remove all heteroscedasticity in price changes in all five currencies. Goodness-of-fit diagnostics indicate that exponential GARCH with certain nonnormal distributions fits the Canadian dollar extremely well and the Swiss franc and the deutsche mark reasonably well. Only one nonnormal distribution fits the Japanese yen reasonably well. None fit the British pound. © 1989 American Statistical Association.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Hsieh, DA
Published Date
- January 1, 1989
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 7 / 3
Start / End Page
- 307 - 317
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1537-2707
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0735-0015
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1080/07350015.1989.10509740
Citation Source
- Scopus