Bad Environments, Good Environments: A Non-Gaussian Asymmetric Volatility Model

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Geert Bekaert

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance

Eric Engstrom

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Andrey Ermolov

Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business

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Date Written: April 10, 2014

Abstract

We propose an extension of standard asymmetric volatility models in the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) class that admits conditional non-Gaussianities in a tractable fashion. Our "bad environment-good environment" (BEGE) model utilizes two gamma-distributed shocks and generates a conditional shock distribution with time-varying heteroskedasticity, skewness, and kurtosis. The BEGE model features nontrivial news impact curves and closed-form solutions for higher-order moments. In an empirical application to stock returns, the BEGE model outperforms standard asymmetric GARCH and regime-switching models along several dimensions.

Keywords: GARCH, non-Gaussian, risk management, asymmetric volatility, heteroskedasticity, skewness, kurtosis, stock returns

JEL Classification: G1, G11, G12, G17, C5, C580

Suggested Citation

Bekaert, Geert and Engstrom, Eric C. and Ermolov, Andrey, Bad Environments, Good Environments: A Non-Gaussian Asymmetric Volatility Model (April 10, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2296898 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2296898

Geert Bekaert

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