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The Predictive Ability of Several Models of Exchange Rate Volatility

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Kenneth D. West, Dongchul Cho

NBER Technical Working Paper No. 152
Issued in January 1994
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We compare the out-of-sample forecasting performance of univariate homoskedastic, GARCH, autoregressive and nonparametric models for conditional variances, using five bilateral weekly exchange rates for the dollar, 1973-1989. For a one week horizon, GARCH models tend to make slightly more accurate forecasts. For longer horizons, it is difficult to find grounds for choosing between the various models. None of the models perform well in a conventional test of forecast efficiency.

Published: Journal of Econometrics, vol. 69, (1995), pp. 367-391.

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