[R-SIG-Finance] Multivariate GARCH

[Brian G. Peterson]

On 12/08/2010 08:39 PM, Charles Evans wrote:
> Currently, I am working on an analysis of ETF premiums.  I have
> estimated ECMs for my sample, but the error terms exhibit ARCH behavior.
>
> Is there a more straightforward way to estimate a multivariate GARCH
> model than mgarch or mgarchBEKK? I have searched for a usable tutorial,
> and I have been unable to find any other than Jeff Ryan's post from 2007:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-finance/2007q4/001833.html
>
> and Ruey Tsay's transcript at:
>
> http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ruey.tsay/teaching/bs41202/sp2010/fGarch.txt
>
>
> Can anyone direct me to a tutorial that lays out how one estimates a
> multivariate GARCH model in R? I'm not asking for a lesson in basic
> econometrics, just an R-related URL that a researcher in a hurry can use.

packages:

mgarch, mgarchBekk, and ccgarch can all estimate multivariate GARCH 
models.  To the best of my knowledge, fGarch cannot.

Regards,

   - Brian


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