Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31273 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2006-14
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
This paper makes two contributions. First, we outline a simple simulation based framework for constructing conditional distributions for multi-factor and multi-dimensional diffusion processes, for the case where the functional form of the conditional density is unknown. The distributions can be used, for example, to form conditional confidence intervals for time period t + Æó , say, given information up to period t. Second, we use the simulation based approach to construct a test for the correct specification of a diffusion process. The suggested test is in the spirit of the conditional Kolmogorov test of Andrews (1997). However, in the present context the null conditional distribution is unknown and is replaced by its simulated counterpart. The limiting distribution of the test statistic is not nuisance parameter free. In light of this, asymptotically valid critical values are obtained via appropriate use of the block bootstrap. The suggested test has power against a larger class of alternatives than tests that are constructed using marginal distributions/densities, such as those in A¡§©Æt-Sahalia (1996) and Corradi and Swanson (2005). The findings of a small Monte Carlo experiment underscore the good finite sample properties of the proposed test, and an empirical illustration underscores the ease with which the proposed simulation and testing methodology can be applied.
Subjects: 
Block bootstrap
diffusion processes
parameter estimation error
simulated GMM
stochastic volatility
JEL: 
C22
C51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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