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Price volatility forecast for agricultural commodity futures: The role of high frequency data
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-17, 18:23 authored by Huang, W, Huang, Z, Matei, M, Wang, TRealized measures of volatility based on high frequency data contain valuable information about the unobserved conditional volatility. In this paper, we use the Realized GARCH model developed by Hansen, Huang and Shek (2012) to estimate and forecast price volatility for four agricultural commodity futures. Empirical evidences, both in-sample and out-of-sample, show that the Realized GARCH model and its variants outperform the conventional volatility models that only use daily price data, such as GARCH and EGARCH. We also consider skewed student's t-distribution to account for the skewness and fat-tail in the agricultural futures prices. The empirical performances are relatively close for models using three different realized measures, as the measurement equation in the Realized GARCH model can adjust to the different realized measures to some extent.
History
Publication title
Romanian Journal of Economic ForecastingVolume
15Issue
4Pagination
83-103ISSN
1582-6163Department/School
TSBEPublisher
Academia Romana, Institutul de Prognoza EconomikaPlace of publication
RomaniaRights statement
Copyright 2012 Romanian Journal of Economic ForecastingRepository Status
- Open