Bayesian Estimation of the GARCH(1,1) Model with Student-t Innovations

This note presents the R package bayesGARCH which provides functions for the Bayesian estimation of the parsimonious and effective GARCH(1,1) model with Student-t innovations. The estimation procedure is fully automatic and thus avoids the tedious task of tuning an MCMC sampling algorithm. The usage of the package is shown in an empirical application to exchange rate log-returns.

David Ardia , Lennart F. Hoogerheide
2010-12-01

CRAN packages used

fGarch, rgarch, tseries, bayesGARCH, coda, foreach

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Finance, Bayesian, TimeSeries, Econometrics, Environmetrics, gR, HighPerformanceComputing

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Ardia & Hoogerheide, "Bayesian Estimation of the GARCH(1,1) Model with Student-t Innovations", The R Journal, 2010

BibTeX citation

@article{RJ-2010-014,
  author = {Ardia, David and Hoogerheide, Lennart F.},
  title = {Bayesian Estimation of the GARCH(1,1) Model with Student-t Innovations},
  journal = {The R Journal},
  year = {2010},
  note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2010-014},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2010-014},
  volume = {2},
  issue = {2},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  pages = {41-47}
}