Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86000 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 02-068/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
The increasing availability of financial market data at intraday frequencies has not only led to the development of improved ex-post volatility measurements but has also inspired research into their potential value as an informa-tion source for longer horizon volatility forecasts. In this paper we explore the forecasting value of these high fre-quency series in conjunction with a variety of volatility models for returns on the Standard & Poor's 100 stock index. We consider two so-calIed realised volatility models in which the cumulative squared intraday returns are modelled directly. We adopt an unobserved components model where actual volatility is modelled as an autore-gressive moving average process and an autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average model which allows for long memory in the logarithms of realised volatility. We compare the predictive abilities of these realised vola-tility models with those of daily time-varying volatility models, such as Stochastic Volatility (SV) and Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models which are both extended to include the intraday volatility measure. For forecasting horizons ranging from one day to one week the most accurate out-of-sample volatility forecasts are obtained with the realised volatility and the extended SV models; all these models contain in-formation inherent in the high frequency returns. In the absence of the intraday volatility information, we find that the SV model outperforms the GARCH model.
Subjects: 
ARFIMA
Financial market volatility
GARCH
Realised volatility
Stochastic volatility
Stock index returns
Unobserved ARMA component
JEL: 
C22
C53
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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