GARCH Models

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tosodoulis
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GARCH Models

Postby tosodoulis » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:33 pm

Does anyone know why might a GARCH type model be preferred to simply calculating the historic standard deviation, when estimating volatility of returns?

startz
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GARCH Models

Postby startz » Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:31 am

GARCH lets the volitility be time varying


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