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How useful is the LAVE method? (p.55-82)

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Aleša Lotrič Dolinar, University of Ljubljana

Keywords : LAVE, GARCH, ARIMA, volatility, emerging markets, stock exchange index

JEL classification : C22, C53

Abstract

We show that the findings of Mercurio and Spokoiny (2004) concerning their alternative LAVE approach for volatility estimation are not necessarily true for another type of volatile time series, as far as comparison to the usual GARCH(1,1) process is concerned. However, we propose another use of LAVE for the purpose of level, not volatility, modeling – and in our case it turns out to be successful.