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In their study on the applicability of volatility forecasting for risk management applications, [2] stress the importance of long-term volatility dependencies under longer forecast horizons. The present contribution addresses multiple-period value-at-risk (VaR) prediction for equity markets under long memory in return volatilities. We account for long memory in the τ-step ahead volatility forecast of GJR-GARCH(1,1) by using a novel estimator considering the slowly declining influence of past volatility shocks. Our empirical study of established equity markets covers daily index returns during the period 1975 to 2007. We study the out-of-sample accuracy of VaR predictions for five, ten, 20 and 60 trading days. As a benchmark model we use the parametric GARCH setting of Drost and Nijman (1993) and the Cornish-Fisher expansion as an approximation to innovation quan-tiles. The backtesting results document that our novel approach improves forecasts remarkably. This outperformance is only in part due to higher levels of risk forecasts. Even after controlling for the unconditional VaR levels of the competing approaches, the long memory GJR-GARCH(1,1) approach delivers results which are not dominated by the benchmark approach.
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Kinateder, H., Wagner, N. (2011). VaR Prediction under Long Memory in Volatility. In: Hu, B., Morasch, K., Pickl, S., Siegle, M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2010. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20009-0_20
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