Melhoramentos inferenciais no modelo Beta-Skew-t-EGARCH

Abstract

The Beta-Skew-t-EGARCH model was recently proposed in literature to model the volatility of financial returns. The inferences over the model parameters are based on the maximum likelihood method. The maximum likelihood estimators present good asymptotic properties; however, in finite sample sizes they can be considerably biased. Monte Carlo simulations were used to evaluate the finite sample performance of point estimators. Numerical results indicated that the maximum likelihood estimators of some parameters are biased in sample sizes smaller than 3,000. Thus, bootstrap bias correction procedures were considered to obtain more accurate estimators in small samples. Better quality of forecasts was observed when the model with bias-corrected estimators was considered. In addition, we propose a likelihood ratio test to assist in the selection of the Beta-Skew-t-EGARCH model with one or two volatility components. The numerical evaluation of the two-component test showed distorted null rejection rates in sample sizes smaller than or equal to 1,000. To improve the performance of the proposed test in small samples, the bootstrap-based likelihood ratio test and the bootstrap Bartlett correction were considered. The bootstrap-based test exhibited the closest null rejection rates to the nominal values. The evaluation results of the two-component tests showed their practical usefulness. Finally, an application to the log-returns of the German stock index of the proposed methods was presented.