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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2015, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (10): 11-18.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2015.10.002

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Modeling Dynamic Financial Higher Moments: A Comparison Study Based on Generalized-t Distribution and Gram-Charlier Expansion

HUANG Zhuo, LI Chao   

  1. National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2014-07-12 Revised:2015-04-17 Online:2015-10-20 Published:2015-10-24

Abstract: Dynamic higher moments is a stylized feature of financial returns. Empirical performance of the popular Generalized-t distribution (GT) and the Gram-Charlier series expansion of the Gaussian density (GCE) under GJRGARCH framework are compared in this paper, in terms of their capacity to fit time-varying higher moments and forecast Value-at-Risk. Using the daily returns of S&P 500 stock index in the U.S. and CSI300 stock index in China, it's shown that both return series exhibit time variation and persistence in conditional higher moments, and the persistence parameters of skewness are as high as 0.9. According to various statistical standards, both GT and GCE distribution have good empirical performance. GT models slightly outperform GCE models in fitting return distribution and forecasting extreme Value-at-Risk out-of-sample, despite some modeling advantages of GCE.

Key words: higher moments, GJRGARCH, generalized-t distribution, gram charlier expansion

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