Bootstrapping non-stationary stochastic volatility
dc.contributor.author | Boswijk, HO | |
dc.contributor.author | Cavaliere, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Georgiev, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Rahbek, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-11T10:58:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper we investigate to what extent the bootstrap can be applied to conditional mean models, such as regression or time series models, when the volatility of the innovations is random and possibly non-stationary. In fact, the volatility of many economic and financial time series displays persistent changes and possible non-stationarity. However, the theory of the bootstrap for such models has focused on deterministic changes of the unconditional variance and little is known about the performance and the validity of the bootstrap when the volatility is driven by a non-stationary stochastic process. This includes near-integrated exogenous volatility processes as well as near-integrated GARCH processes, where the conditional variance has a diffusion limit; a further important example is the case where volatility exhibits infrequent jumps. This paper fills this gap in the literature by developing conditions for bootstrap validity in time series and regression models with non-stationary, stochastic volatility. We show that in such cases the distribution of bootstrap statistics (conditional on the data) is random in the limit. Consequently, the conventional approaches to proofs of bootstrap consistency, based on the notion of weak convergence in probability of the bootstrap statistic, fail to deliver the required validity results. Instead, we use the concept of ‘weak convergence in distribution’ to develop and establish novel conditions for validity of the wild bootstrap, conditional on the volatility process. We apply our results to several testing problems in the presence of non-stationary stochastic volatility, including testing in a location model, testing for structural change using CUSUM-type functionals, and testing for a unit root in autoregressive models. Importantly, we work under sufficient conditions for bootstrap validity that include the absence of statistical leverage effects, i.e., correlation between the error process and its future conditional variance. The results of the paper are illustrated using Monte Carlo simulations, which indicate that a wild bootstrap approach leads to size control even in small samples. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Danish Council for Independent Research | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Bologna | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Italian Ministry of University and Research | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 4 March 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.01.005 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 015-00028B | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ALMA IDEA 2017 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2017TA7TYC | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124355 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 4 March 2023 in compliance with publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Bootstrap | en_GB |
dc.subject | Non-stationary stochastic volatility | en_GB |
dc.subject | Random limit measures | en_GB |
dc.subject | Weak convergence in Distribution | en_GB |
dc.title | Bootstrapping non-stationary stochastic volatility | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-11T10:58:34Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0304-4076 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Econometrics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-01-08 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-01-08 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-01-11T09:37:48Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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