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The Mardia’s Kurtosis of a Multivariate GARCH Model

In: Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance

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  • Cinzia Franceschini

    (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “Paolo Fortunati”)

  • Nicola Loperfido

    (Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Dipartimento di Economia, Società e Politica)

Abstract

The Mardia’s kurtosis of a random vector with nonsingular covariance matrix and finite fourth-order moments is the fourth moment of the Mahalanobis distance of the random vector from its mean. In particular, the Mardia’s kurtosis of a nondegenerate random variable with finite fourth moment coincides with its fourth standardized moment. The Mardia’s kurtosis is the best known measure of multivariate kurtosis and appears in normality testing, robustness studies and outlier detection. Under mild assumptions, we show that an observation generated by a multivariate GARCH model has a Mardia’s kurtosis which is greater than the Mardia’s kurtosis of the innovation in the same model. The result generalizes to the multivariate case a well-known feature of univariate GARCH models. The practical relevance of the result is assessed with real data.

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  • Cinzia Franceschini & Nicola Loperfido, 2022. "The Mardia’s Kurtosis of a Multivariate GARCH Model," Springer Books, in: Marco Corazza & Cira Perna & Claudio Pizzi & Marilena Sibillo (ed.), Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, pages 260-265, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-99638-3_42
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99638-3_42
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