MODELING NONSTATIONARY AND LEPTOKURTIC FINANCIAL TIME SERIES
非平稳与尖峰厚尾金融时间序列的建模
Financial time series is often assumed to be stationary and has a normal distribution in the literature. Both assumptions are however unrealistic. This paper proposes a new methodology with a focus on volatility estimation that is able to account for nonstationarity and heavy tails simultaneously. In particular, a local exponential smoothing (LES) approach is developed, in which weak estimates with different memory parameters are aggregated in a locally adaptive way. The…