Working Paper

Stylized Facts and Simulating Long Range Financial Data

Laurie Davies, Walter Kraemer
CESifo, Munich, 2016

CESifo Working Paper No. 5796

We propose a new method (implemented in an R-program) to simulate long-range daily stock-price data. The program reproduces various stylized facts much better than various parametric models from the extended GARCH-family. In particular, the empirically observed changes in unconditional variance are truthfully mirrored in the simulated data.

CESifo Category
Monetary Policy and International Finance
Empirical and Theoretical Methods
Keywords: long-range daily stock-price, stylized facts, GARCH modelling, empirical economics
JEL Classification: C580, G110, G170