Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30048 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1594
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Long memory (long-term dependence) of volatility counts as one of the ubiquitous stylized facts of financial data. Inspired by the long memory property, multifractal processes have recently been introduced as a new tool for modeling financial time series. In this paper, we propose a parsimonious version of a bivariate multifractal model and estimate its parameters via both maximum likelihood and simulation based inference approaches. In order to explore its practical performance, we apply the model for computing value-at-risk and expected shortfall statistics for various portfolios and compare the results with those from an alternative bivariate multifractal model proposed by Calvet et al. (2006) and the bivariate CC-GARCH of Bollerslev (1990). As it turns out, the multifractal models provide much more reliable results than CC-GARCH, and our new model compares well with the one of Calvet et al. although it has an even smaller number of parameters.
Subjects: 
Long memory
multifractal models
simulation based inference
value-at-risk
expected shortfall
JEL: 
C11
C13
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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