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A tobit model with garch errors

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  • Gabriele Fiorentini

    (Universidad de Alicante)

  • Giorgio Calzolari

    (University of Florence)

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In the context of time series regression, we extend the standard Tobitmodel to allow for the possibility of conditional heteroskedastic error processes of the GARCH type.We discuss the likelihood function of the Tobit model in the presence of conditionally heteroskedastic errors.Expressing the exact likelihood function turns out to be infeasible, and we propose anapproximation by treating the model as being conditionally Gaussian. The performance of theestimator is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We find that, when the errorterms follow a GARCH process, the proposed estimator considerably outperforms the standardTobit quasi maximum likelihood estimator. The efficency loss due to the approximationof the likelihood is finally evaluated.

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  • Gabriele Fiorentini & Giorgio Calzolari, 1997. "A tobit model with garch errors," Working Papers. Serie AD 1997-13, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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    Censored regressions; conditional heteroskedasticity;

    JEL classification:

    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C15 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Statistical Simulation Methods: General
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • C24 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold Regression Models

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