Multivariate GARCH
MGARCH stands for multivariate GARCH, or multivariate generalized
autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. MGARCH allows the
conditional-on-past-history covariance matrix of the dependent variables to
follow a flexible dynamic structure.
Stata’s new mgarch command fits MGARCH models. mgarch
implements
diagonal vech and conditional correlation models. Conditional
correlation models are also new to Stata 12. Conditional correlation models
use nonlinear combinations of univariate GARCH models to represent the
conditional covariances. mgarch provides estimators for three popular
conditional correlation models—CCC, DCC, VCC—also known as constant,
dynamic, and varying conditional correlation.
Below we analyze daily data on returns of Toyota, Nissan, and Honda stocks.
We include the lag of the Nissan stock in the mean equation for Honda. We
specify one ARCH term and one GARCH term for the conditional variance
equation of each company.
And the results are
Having estimated our model, we can now forecast the conditional
variances 50 time periods into the future.
. tsappend, add(50)
. predict H*, variance dynamic(2016)
We can graph the result:
Above, we fit a CCC model. We could instead fit a DCC model in which the
correlation matrix at each time period is modeled as a weighted average of
its own past and recent shocks.
Below we fit a bivariate model of stock returns and specify that the
error term follows a multivariate Student’s t distribution:
And the results are
The DCC model reduces to the CCC model when the adjustment parameters
that govern the dynamic correlation process are jointly equal to zero.
We can perform a Wald test to test this hypothesis.
We have fit a CCC model and a DCC model. We could fit a VCC model in which
the correlation matrix is modeled as a weighted average of its own past and
averages of recent shocks.
To illustrate the flexibility of the conditional correlation
estimators, we specify each variance equation separately in the
mgarch command below.
We include two ARCH terms, one GARCH term, and an independent variable in
the variance equation of Honda and one ARCH term for the variance equation of
Toyota.
We have demonstrated CCC, DCC, and VCC. We could also demonstrate
diagonal vech, except Stata 11 could do that. New in Stata 12 are
multivariate Student’s t errors in the diagonal vech model.
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