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Applications of modern spectral tools in financial econometrics
Křehlík, Tomáš ; Baruník, Jozef (advisor) ; Hanousek, Jan (referee) ; Croux, Christopher (referee) ; Wang, Yao (referee)
Spectral tools in econometrics have lately experienced a renewed surge in interest. This dissertation contributes to this literature by providing conceptually different spectral-based methods and their applications to problems of modern economics. In the first part, we take a spectral decomposition of realized volatility and construct a multivariate GARCH style model that we fit by standard quasi-maximum likelihood and generalized autoregressive score procedures. We build our model on a belief that market agents obtain information in various time horizons and therefore form their expectations in various informational horizons. This behavior creates an overall volatility process that is a mixture of spectrum specific processes. We then apply the model to the currency markets, namely GBP, CHF, and EUR. With the help of the model confidence set test we show that the multi-scale model and the generalized autoregressive score based models produce forecasts that are in most cases superior to the competing models. Moreover, we find that most of the information for future volatility comes from the high frequency part of the spectra representing the very short investment horizons. In the second part, we provide a spectral decomposition of a system multivariate connectedness measure based on Diebold and Yilmaz...
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