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Hardy, Mary R.

A regime-switching model of long-term stock returns. (English) Zbl 1083.62530

N. Am. Actuar. J. 5, No. 2, 41-53 (2001).
Summary: I first define the regime-switching lognormal model. Monthly data from the Standard and Poors 500 and the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 indices are used to fit the model parameters, using maximum likelihood estimation. The fit of the regime-switching model to the data is compared with other common econometric models, including the generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic model. The distribution function of the regime-switching model is derived. Prices of European options using the regime-switching model are derived and implied volatilities explored. Finally, an example of the application of the model to maturity guarantees under equity-linked insurance is presented. Equations for quantile and conditional tail expectation (Tail-VaR) risk measures are derived, and a numerical example compares the regime-switching lognormal model results with those using the more traditional lognormal stock return model.

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62P05 Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics
62M10 Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH)
91G70 Statistical methods; risk measures
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\textit{M. R. Hardy}, N. Am. Actuar. J. 5, No. 2, 41--53 (2001; Zbl 1083.62530)
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