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Choosing the Best Volatility Models: The Model Confidence Set Approach*
Author(s) -
Hansen Peter Reinhard,
Lunde Asger,
Nason James M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1046/j.0305-9049.2003.00086.x
Subject(s) - bonferroni correction , volatility (finance) , confidence interval , econometrics , statistics , benchmark (surveying) , absolute deviation , mathematics , range (aeronautics) , computer science , geodesy , geography , materials science , composite material
This paper applies the model confidence set (MCS) procedure of Hansen, Lunde and Nason (2003) to a set of volatility models. An MCS is analogous to the confidence interval of a parameter in the sense that it contains the best forecasting model with a certain probability. The key to the MCS is that it acknowledges the limitations of the information in the data. The empirical exercise is based on 55 volatility models and the MCS includes about a third of these when evaluated by mean square error, whereas the MCS contains only a VGARCH model when mean absolute deviation criterion is used. We conduct a simulation study which shows that the MCS captures the superior models across a range of significance levels. When we benchmark the MCS relative to a Bonferroni bound, the latter delivers inferior performance.