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PDF Submissiоn Only GrаdeScоpe Submissiоn Link(10-minute submission window) Cаnvаs file upload here Part I: ARMA–GARCH Modelling Question: 1a Evaluate the stationarity properties of the entire time series corresponding to Financial Returns, Economic Activity Indicator, and Risk Conditions Index. Support your analysis with appropriate plots (e.g., time series plots, ACF/PACF) and statistical tests (e.g., Augmented Dickey-Fuller or KPSS) as needed. Additionally, explore the correlation structure between the three time series using appropriate tools (e.g., contemporaneous correlation matrix & scatter plots, and lagged cross-correlation plots). Based on your findings, discuss the degree of comovement and interdependence across the three series. Conclude by providing an initial assessment of whether a multivariate framework such as a VAR model is appropriate for capturing the joint dynamics of these variables, or whether the series appear largely independent and better suited for separate univariate modeling approaches. Training vs Testing Data Using the Financial Returns (RF) series, divide the data into training and testing sets, leaving the last six observations (July 2025 to December 2025) as the testing set, and using the remaining data (January 2000 to June 2025) as the training set. For the questions below, you will estimate/fit and compare several models using the training data. You will then generate one-step-ahead forecasts for each of the last six months. Specifically, at each forecast origin, re-estimate the specified models using all data available up to that time point and produce a one-period-ahead prediction. Question: 1b Using the training set (without the last six months), fit an ARIMA model of order (5,0,2). Then obtain the residuals and the standardized residuals from the fitted ARIMA model and examine their properties by plotting the ACF of the residuals and the squared (standardized) residuals, and by conducting appropriate diagnostic tests. Finally, evaluate whether the residuals exhibit evidence of heteroscedasticity, and provide a written interpretation of the results, clearly explaining what the plots and test outcomes imply about the adequacy of the model. Question: 1c Using the training data, fit an ARIMA(5,0,2)–GARCH(1,1) model for the Financial Returns (RF) series. After fitting the model, evaluate whether it has adequately captured both the serial correlation and volatility clustering present in the data. Plot the ACF of the standardized residuals and the ACF of the squared standardized residuals to assess whether any remaining structure is present in the mean or variance. Additionally, examine whether the conditional variance process is stationary by evaluating the estimated GARCH parameters (i.e., whether the sum of the ARCH and GARCH coefficients is less than one). Provide written interpretations of your plots and results, clearly explaining what they indicate about the adequacy of the model. Question: 1d Apply the selected model from (1b) to obtain forecasts for the Financial Returns (RF) series over the testing period, consisting of the last six observations (July 2025 to December 2025). Specifically, generate both: 1. one-step-ahead rolling forecasts, where the model is re-estimated each period using all information available up to that point, and 2. 6-step-ahead forecasts, produced from the end of the training sample without updating the model during the forecast horizon. Visualize both sets of forecasts against the observed values and calculate the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and the Prediction Mean (PM) for each forecasting approach over the testing period. Based on these results, compare the predictive accuracy of the rolling 1-step-ahead and 6-step-ahead forecasts, and discuss how forecast horizon affects model performance for the Financial Returns series. Hint: For the 6 step ahead forecas you can use ugarchforecast(your rugarch model, n.ahead = h) Question: 1e Using the mean model specification in Question 1b for the Financial Returns (RF) series, fit an EGARCH model using the training data. Write down the full model equations, including both the mean equation and the conditional variance equation , clearly defining all parameters. Evaluate whether it is appropriate to model the conditional variance using an EGARCH specification. Support your conclusion by comparing the EGARCH model with the standard GARCH model from question 1c , focusing on whether the EGARCH model provides a better representation of volatility dynamics in the Financial Returns series. In particular, assess whether there is evidence of asymmetry in volatility responses , that is, whether positive and negative shocks have different effects on future volatility. To support your discussion, plot and interpret the News Impact Curves (NICs) for both the GARCH and EGARCH models, and explain what these imply about the role of asymmetric shocks in the data. Finally, comment on whether the EGARCH model appears to improve the overall adequacy of the volatility specification relative to the standard GARCH model. Question 1f. Using the Economic Activity (EA) training data, estimate an ARMA(1,0,2) model. Using the fitted model, generate 6-step-ahead forecasts for the testing period (the last six observations). Visualize the forecasts against the observed values and compute the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and the Prediction Mean (PM) to evaluate forecast accuracy. Based on these results, discuss the predictive performance of the ARMA model for Economic Activity. Part II: Multivariate Modeling The R code below prepares the multivariate time series for VAR modeling. You can comment out the if you do not need this process. Question: 2a Using the training data (without the last six months), fit an unrestricted VAR(p) model using the Financial Returns (RF) , Economic Activity (EA) , and Risk Conditions (RC) series. Select the optimal lag order using the AIC information criterion, considering a maximum lag length of p = 7 . Evaluate the stability of the estimated VAR model. Assess the overall fit of the model, and support your discussion with relevant plots and statistical tests, such as residual diagnostics and the ACF/PACF of the residuals. *Hint:* You can analyze the roots of the characteristic polynomial to assess whether the VAR model is stable. Question: 2b For each time series in the VAR model from question 2a , apply the Wald test to identify any lead–lag relationships among the Financial Returns (RF) , Economic Activity (EA) , and Risk Conditions (RC) series, using a significance level of $alpha = 0.05$. Comment on any statistically significant dynamic relationships between the variables. Additionally, discuss whether there is evidence of contemporaneous relationships among the variables, and explain how these may affect the interpretation of the VAR results. Part III: Forecast Question 3a. Using the VAR model estimated in question 2a , generate 6-step-ahead forecasts for both the Financial Returns (RF) and Economic Activity (EA) series over the testing period. Compare these forecasts with those obtained from the univariate models , specifically: - the ARMA–GARCH model for Financial Returns (RF) using the same 6-step-ahead forecasting approach only (i.e., no rolling forecasts), and - the ARMA model for Economic Activity (EA) , Evaluate and compare the forecast performance of the VAR model relative to the univariate approaches using appropriate accuracy measures such as MAPE and PM . Discuss whether incorporating multivariate dynamics through the VAR model leads to an improvement in predictive accuracy for either series. In your discussion, comment on the extent to which cross-variable interactions contribute to better forecasts, and whether the VAR framework provides additional value over separate univariate models when forecasting over a multi-step horizon.
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