Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81856 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 233
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
A general model is proposed for flexibly estimating the density of a continuous response variable conditional on a possibly high-dimensional set of covariates. The model is a finite mixture of asymmetric student-t densities with covariate dependent mixture weights. The four parameters of the components, the mean, degrees of freedom, scale and skewness, are all modelled as functions of the covariates. Inference is Bayesian and the computation is carried out using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation. To enable model parsimony, a variable selection prior is used in each set of covariates and among the covariates in the mixing weights. The model is used to analyse the distribution of daily stock market returns, and shown to more accurately forecast the distribution of returns than other widely used models for financial data.
Subjects: 
Bayesian inference
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Mixture of Experts
Variable selection
Volatility modeling
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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