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Applications of state space models in finance

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Contents<br />

List <strong>of</strong> figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii<br />

List <strong>of</strong> tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv<br />

Notation and conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii<br />

Used abbreviations and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix<br />

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii<br />

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix<br />

1 Introduction 1<br />

1.1 The model<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.2 Research objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.3 Organization <strong>of</strong> the thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

2 Some stylized facts <strong>of</strong> weekly sector return series 7<br />

2.1 The data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

2.2 Empirical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.2.1 Thick tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

2.2.2 Volatility cluster<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.2.3 Leverage effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.2.4 Volatility co-movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.3 Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

3 L<strong>in</strong>ear Gaussian <strong>state</strong> <strong>space</strong> <strong>models</strong> and the Kalman filter 17<br />

3.1 Basic ideas <strong>of</strong> <strong>state</strong> <strong>space</strong> model<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

3.2 The <strong>state</strong> <strong>space</strong> form <strong>of</strong> a dynamic system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

3.3 The Kalman filter and smoother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

3.3.1 Filter<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3.3.1.1 The general form <strong>of</strong> the Kalman filter . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3.3.1.2 The steady-<strong>state</strong> Kalman filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

3.3.2 State smooth<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

3.3.3 Disturbance smooth<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

3.3.3.1 Disturbance smooth<strong>in</strong>g recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

3.3.3.2 Fast <strong>state</strong> smooth<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

3.3.4 Miss<strong>in</strong>g observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

3.3.5 Forecast<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />

3.3.6 Initialization <strong>of</strong> filter and smoother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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