Do misalignments predict aggregated stock-market volatility?

This paper considers forecasting regressions of “realized volatility” on a misalignment measure. Results show that this misalignment measure is useful to predict in and out-of-sample stock-market volatility at monthly horizons. The analysis also suggests a threshold effect.     

Is economic policy uncertainty important to forecast the realized volatility of crude oil futures?

In this research, we first investigate whether economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index can increase the HAR-RV-type models’ forecast accuracy. In addition, we explore how EPU index can be effectively used to gain larger economic values in the oil futures market. To this end, this research provides a new perspective on setting thresholds for EPU and examines whether these thresholds can help improve both the forecast accuracy and economic values. Empirical results suggest that the HAR-RV-type models including EPU can generate more accurate forecasts and economic values. The HAR-RV-type models including above-threshold EPU can further improve the forecast accuracy and yield higher economic values by setting specific thresholds for a range of horizons. The findings highlight the importance of EPU and effective way of using EPU in risk management and portfolio strategies that is crucial for investors and policymakers.     

Forecasting realized volatility of crude oil futures with equity market uncertainty

This paper examines whether the equity market uncertainty (EMU) index contains incremental information for forecasting the realized volatility of crude oil futures. We use 5-min high-frequency transaction data for WTI crude oil futures and develop six heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models based on classical HAR-type models. The empirical results suggest that EMU contains more incremental information than the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) for forecasting the realized volatility of crude oil futures. More importantly, we argue that EMU is a non negligible additional predictive variable that can significantly improve the 1-day ahead predictive accuracy of all six HAR-type models, and improve the 1-week ahead forecasting performance of the HAR-RV, HAR-RV-J, HAR-RSV, HAR-RV-SJ models. These findings highlight a strong short-term and a weak mid-term predictive ability of EMU in the crude oil futures market.     

Volatility forecasting: long memory,regime switching and heteroscedasticity

In this article, we account for the first time for long memory, regime switching and the conditional time-varying volatility of volatility (heteroscedasticity) to model and forecast market volatility using the heterogeneous autoregressive model of realized volatility (HAR-RV) and its extensions. We present several interesting and notable findings. First, existing models exhibit significant nonlinearity and clustering, which provide empirical evidence on the benefit of introducing regime switching and heteroscedasticity. Second, out-of-sample results indicate that combining regime switching and heteroscedasticity can substantially improve predictive power from a statistical viewpoint. More specifically, our proposed models generally exhibit higher forecasting accuracy. Third, these results are widely consistent across a variety of robustness tests such as different forecasting windows, forecasting models, realized measures, and stock markets. Consequently, this study sheds new light on forecasting future volatility.     

Forecasting the aggregate stock market volatility in a data-rich world

ABSTRACT

In this article, we utilize the basic lasso and elastic net models to revisit the predictive performance of aggregate stock market volatility in a data-rich world. Motivated by the existing literature, we determine several candidate predictors that have 22 technical indicators and 14 macroeconomic and financial variables. Our out-of-sample results reveal several noteworthy findings. First, few macroeconomic and financial variables and most of technical indicators have superior performance relative to the benchmark model. Second, combination forecasts are able to significantly beat the benchmark and some signal predictors Third, the lasso and elastic models with all predictors can generate more accurate forecasts than the benchmark and some other predictors in both the statistical and economic sense. Fourth, the lasso and elastic models exhibit higher forecast accuracy during periods of expansions and recessions. Finally, our findings are robust to several tests, such as different forecasting windows, forecasting models, and forecasting evaluations.     

金融资产收益率波动预测——基于我国股票市场跳跃行为研究

金融资产收益率波动是资产定价和金融风险管理的核心部分,而跳跃是收益率波动中的重要组成部分。基于修正Z-检验,本文检测识别我国股市波动中跳跃行为,并且研究了跳跃的时序特征,统计结果表明,在市场大波动时期,和连续成份相比,跳跃对于波动率具有极其重要的贡献。建立包含跳跃的已实现波动率非齐次自回归模型,在波动模型中纳入滞后绝对日收益率和杠杆效应预测股指收益率波动。实证分析结果显示,对于短期的波动预测,包含跳跃和两种影响因素的波动模型表现最好,然而对于提前1月的长期预测,跳跃和连续波动成份分离模型预测明显优于其它模型,这些事实说明跳跃对股指波动率预测具有重要的影响,好坏消息对波动率非对称性具有短期显著影响,而对长期水平的波动率预测影响不显著。     

中国碳排放试点市场碳交易价格分析及预测

对试点市场碳价格分析结果表明:①试点市场碳价格平均水平相差较大,各市场数据均出现尖峰厚尾、波动率集聚、多重分形特征;②试点市场月均价分析过程中,发现新的碳排放市场的建立会对各个碳市场交易价格有提升作用,免费碳排放配额比例的适当调整有利于碳排放配额交易价格下降,碳排放市场核算与核查体系的逐步完善会使碳排放配额交易价格趋于平稳。本文采用马尔科夫转换多重分形模型对碳价格进行预测,得出了准确度较高的结果。     

Economic policy uncertainty and the Chinese stock market volatility: new evidence

This study investigates the impacts of the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) indexes of China and the G7 countries on Chinese stock market volatility and further constructs a new diffusion index based on these indexes using principal component analysis (PCA) to achieve enhanced predictive ability. The in-sample results indicate that the EPU indexes of China and some of the G7 countries show a significantly negative impact on future volatility. Moreover, our constructed diffusion index also has a significantly negative impact. Furthermore, the out-of-sample results show that this diffusion index exhibits a significantly higher forecast accuracy than the EPU itself and combination forecasts. Finally, various robustness checks are consistent with our main conclusions. Overall, we construct a new and useful indicator that can substantially increase forecast accuracy with respect to the Chinese stock market.     

国内油价市场波动的ARCH模型分析

本文运用1997年1月-2008年8月中国国内原油（大庆）的FOB即期价格周数据,应用ARCH类模型对我国国内油价的波动率进行了研究。研究结果表明,我国国内原油价格收益率序列呈现明显的GARCH效应,国内油价波动受国际油价的冲击性较高,并呈现较长的持续性。为此我国应尽快建立现代石油市场体系,并加强石油利用率,以积极应对国际油价的变化。     

Does measurement error matter in volatility forecasting? Empirical evidence from the Chinese stock market

Based on methods developed by Bollerslev et al. (2016), we explicitly accounted for the heteroskedasticity in the measurement errors and for the high volatility of Chinese stock prices; we proposed a new model, the LogHARQ model, as a way to appropriately forecast the realized volatility of the Chinese stock market. Out-of-sample findings suggest that the LogHARQ model performs better than existing logarithmic and linear forecast models, particularly when the realized quarticity is large. The better performance is also confirmed by the utility based economic value test through volatility timing.     

小波神经网络预测方法在石油期货价格预测中的应用研究

金融时间序列数据的预测是预测领域的热点问题。本文结合小渡变换与神经网络的有关理论,给出了基于小渡神经网络的石油期货价格预测具体学习算法并进行了拟合及检测,结果表明该方法具有比常用的BP算法及径向基函数网络算法（HCM算法）更好的拟合能力、推广能力,可为石油期货买卖决策提供一定的依据,并可推广于其它金融时间序列的预测。     

Forecasting Brazilian inflation by its aggregate and disaggregated data: a test of predictive power by forecast horizon

This work aims to compare the forecast efficiency of different types of methodologies applied to Brazilian consumer inflation (Índice de Preços ao Consumidor Amplo; IPCA). We will compare forecasting models using disaggregated and aggregated data from IPCA over 12 months ahead. We used IPCA in a monthly basis, over the period between January 1996 and March 2012. Out-of-sample analysis will be made through the period of January 2008 to March 2012. The disaggregated models were estimated by Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) and will have different levels of disaggregation from IPCA as groups and items, as well as disaggregation with more economic sense used by Brazilian Central Bank as: (1) services, monitored prices, food and industrials and (2) durables, non-durables, semi-durables, services and monitored prices. Aggregated models will be estimated by time series techniques as SARIMA, state-space structural models and Markov-switching. The forecasting accuracy among models will be made by the selection model procedure known as Model Confidence Set developed by Peter Hansen, Asger Lunde and James Nason. We were able to find evidence of forecast accuracy gains in models using more disaggregated rather than aggregate data.     

Noisy chaotic dynamics in commodity markets

The nonlinear testing and modeling of economic and financial time series has increased substantially in recent years, enabling us to better understand market and price behavior, risk and the formation of expectations. Such tests have also been applied to commodity market behavior, providing evidence of heteroskedasticity, chaos, long memory, cyclicity, etc. The present evaluation of futures price behavior confirms that the resulting price movements can be random, suggesting noisy chaotic behavior. Prices could thus follow a mean process that is dynamic chaotic, coupled with a variance that follows a GARCH process. Our conclusion is that models of this type could be constructed to assist in forecasting prices in the short run but not over long run time periods.First version received: June 2001/Final version received: March 2003     

能源价格波动对企业风险传导机理

遵循投入-产出的思路,从资本、劳动、能源三个要素的变动及其相互替代关系入手,从微观经济学的角度,分析当能源价格发生变化时劳动力要素和资本要素的变化以及对最终产出的影响。通过实证分析得出:实际工资水平的下降可以抵消能源成本上升给企业产出带来的不利影响,且资本投入越早,能源价格波动对企业的影响越大。     

融资、融券交易及其波动对股价稳定性的影响一致吗*

本文区分并讨论了融资交易、融券交易及二者的波动对标的股价稳定性影响的不一致性。研究表明,融资交易提高了标的股价的整体稳定性却加剧了股价异常下跌频率,而融券交易对股价整体稳定性及异常下跌频率并不存在显著影响。更重要的是,融资交易的异常波动加剧了股价的不稳定,而融券交易的异常波动则有助于提高股价稳定性。本文的政策启示在于,应采取比较“温和”的方式调控融资交易以避免融资交易的过度波动加剧标的股价的不稳定。