Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/264651 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 59
Publisher: 
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Vienna
Abstract: 
Density forecasts have become quite important in economics and finance. For example, such forecasts play a central role in modern financial risk management techniques like Value at Risk. This paper suggests a regression based density forecast evaluation framework as a simple alternative to other approaches. In simulation experiments and an empirical application to in- and out-of-sample one-step-ahead density forecasts of daily returns on the S&P 500, DAX and ATX stock market indices, the regression based evaluation strategy is compared with a recently proposed methodology based on likelihood ratio tests. It is demonstrated that misspecifications of forecasting models can be detected within the proposed regression framework. It is further demonstrated that the likelihood ratio methodology without additional misspecification tests has no power in many practical situations and therefore frequently selects incorrect forecasting models. The empirical results provide some evidence that GARCH-t models provide good density forecasts. The results further suggest that extensions of statistical models with fat-tailed conditional distributions to models that incorporate higher order conditional moments beyond the conditional variance might be appropriate to capture the empirical regularities in financial time series in some cases.
Subjects: 
Density forecasting
Forecast evaluation
Risk management
GARCH-models
JEL: 
G10
C52
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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