Mixed-frequency forecasting of crude oil volatility based on the information content of global economic conditions

This paper subjects six alternative indicators of global economic activity to empirically examine their relative predictive powers in the forecast of crude oil market volatility. GARCH-MIDAS approach is constructed to accommodate all the relevant series at their available data frequencies, thereby circumventing information loss and any associated bias. We find evidence in support of global economic activity as a good predictor of energy market volatility. Our forecast evaluation of the various indicators places a higher weight on the newly developed indicator of global economic activity which is based on a set of 16 variables covering multiple dimensions of the global economy, whereas other indicators do not seem to capture. Furthermore, we find that accounting for any inherent asymmetry in the global economic activity proxies improves the forecast accuracy of the GARCH-MIDAS-X model for oil volatility. The results leading to these conclusions are robust to multiple forecast horizons and consistent across alternative energy sources.     

A new Markov regime-switching count time series approach for forecasting initial public offering volumes and detecting issue cycles

This study proposes a novel Markov regime-switching negative binomial generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model for analyzing count data time series. We develop a likelihood-based method for parameter estimation and give the one-step-ahead forecasting algorithms for the mean, variance, and quantiles. An empirical analysis of both the U.S. initial public offering (IPO) and Chinese A-share IPO markets indicates that our method is very efficient in forecasting monthly IPO volumes and detecting hot/cold issue markets. The first-day IPO return is positively correlated with the IPO volume in a hot issue market but negatively correlated with the IPO volume in a cold issue market, in both the U.S. and Chinese IPO markets. However, the average first-day return in the previous hot issue market has a significant positive impact on the current IPO volume for only the U.S. IPO market. Our approach helps to more accurately model and understand the behavior of hot/cold IPO issue markets.     

基于MODWT—ARIMA时间序列的棉花期货高频数据分析

介绍了ARIMA时间预测算法及MODWT小波变换的数学原理,通过对单日棉花期货的交易记录进行了MODWT—ARIMA组合分析,避免了对时间序列起点的敏感,更好地实现了对棉花期货时间序列的预测。     

结构突变条件下农产品期货市场波动率的预测

在检验农产品期货已实现波动率序列的结构突变等特征基础上,通过构造不同估计窗口大小的ARFIMAX-FIGARCH模型及其线性和非线性组合预测模型来预测农产品期货市场的已实现波动率,并采用基于自助法的MCS检验评价和比较各类预测模型的预测性能。研究结果表明:农产品期货的已实现波动率序列都表现出结构突变特征、不对称性和双长记忆性,并且结构突变点都与一连串的宏观面、政策面重大事件冲击有关;对基于不同估计窗口大小的ARFIMAX-FIGARCH模型所得的单项预测值进行时变加权组合通常能够提供更准确的波动率预测值,并且基于NKR的非参数组合预测模型和基于NRLS和SIC的线性组合预测模型是在结构突变条件下预测农产品期货市场波动率尤其有效的方法。     

民营企业内部劳动力市场构建的影响因素研究

民营企业对我国经济的增长和社会的稳定发挥了越来越重要的作用,但是,民营企业内部劳动力市场的缺失却阻碍了民营企业自身的发展。民营企业内部劳动力市场的显著影响因素主要有：产品市场、外部劳动力市场、信任、信念、员工素质和人力资源等。     

中国股票市场日周效应的规律性研究

对我国股票市场的日周效应进行研究发现，自1995年1月1日以后沪、深A股和深市B股市场存在着显著的正周五效应．实证结果表明，存在于中国证券市场上的正周五效应可以通过结算过程假设和半月效应假设进行解释．同时研究发现中国深市B股市场的日周效应可能源自于国外市场的溢出效应．当不考虑交易成本的情况下，在中国沪、深A股市场上存在着利用日周效应交易策略进行套利的机会．     

基于非对称VECM BEKK GARCH模型的国内外原油价格关联性分析

 构建非对称VECM BEKK GARCH模型，分别选取大庆原油和WTI（美国西德克萨斯原油）作为国内外原油现货价格的代表，研究分析2000年1月至2020年8月间国内外原油价格间的关联性。研究结果表明:WTI原油价格对大庆原油价格存在显著的均值溢出和波动溢出效应，而大庆原油价格对WTI原油价格只存在显著的波动溢出效应；二者间存在双向的非对称性的波动溢出效应，即大庆原油价格会随着WTI原油价格的变动而呈现出时变性和持续性变化的特点，而WTI原油价格变动呈现出持续性时，大庆原油价格也会随之产生变化，总体上，负向冲击使大庆原油价格波动的幅度大于WTI原油价格波动的幅度。