Essays on Financial Econometrics

dc.contributor.advisor

Patton, Andrew J

dc.contributor.author

Chen, Rui

dc.date.accessioned

2020-09-18T16:00:46Z

dc.date.available

2020-09-18T16:00:46Z

dc.date.issued

2020

dc.department

Economics

dc.description.abstract

This dissertation contains my research results on two topics of nancial econometrics.

The rst topic is jump regression where the observation selection procedure can be

viewed as the analogy of dimension reduction for the classical big "P" problem in

statistics to the big "N" problem in nancial econometrics. The second topic is about

estimation and testing of time series models for Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected

Shortfall (ES), which is the average return on a risky asset conditional on the return

being below some quantile of its distribution, namely its VaR.

The rst chapter, which is joint work with Jia Li, Viktor Todorov and George

Tauchen, develops an ecient mixed-scale estimator for jump regressions using highfrequency

asset returns. A novel bootstrap procedure is proposed to make inference

about our estimator, which has a non-standard asymptotic distribution that cannot

be made asymptotically pivotal via studentization. The Monte Carlo analysis indicates

good nite-sample performance of the general specication test and condence

intervals based on the bootstrap. When the method is applied to a high-frequency

panel of Dow stock prices together with the market index dened by the S&P 500

index futures over the period 2007{2014, we observe remarkable temporal stability

in the way that stocks react to market jumps.

The second chapter is co-authored with Andrew J. Patton and Johanna F. Ziegel.

We use recent results from statistical decision theory to overcome the problem of

\elicitability" for ES by jointly modelling ES and VaR, and propose new time series

models for these risk measures. Estimation and inference methods are provided for

the proposed models and conrmed via simulation studies to have good nite-sample

properties. We apply these models to daily returns on four international equity

indices, and nd the proposed new ES-VaR models outperform forecasts based on

iv

GARCH or rolling window models.

The third chapter is my single-authored paper which proposes a consistent speci-

cation test of dynamic joint models for VaR and ES. To overcome the intractability

problem of the asymptotic distribution of the test statistics under the null hypothesis,

the subsampling approximation is used to get the asymptotic critical values. A

Monte Carlo study shows that the proposed test has better empirical size and power

performance in nite samples than other existing tests.

dc.identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/21518

dc.subject

Economics

dc.title

Essays on Financial Econometrics

dc.type

Dissertation

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
CHEN_duke_0066D_15877.pdf
Size:
1.53 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format

Collections