Based on Godambe's theory of estimating functions, we propose a class of cumulative sum (CUSUM) statistics to detect breaks in the dynamics of time series under weak assumptions. First, we assume a parametric form for the conditional mean, but make no specific assumption about the...

We investigate the problem of testing the finiteness of moments for a class of semi-parametric time series encompassing many commonly used specifications. The existence of positive-power moments of the strictly stationary solution is characterized by the Moment Determining Function (MDF) of the...

We investigate the problem of testing finiteness of moments for a class of semi-parametric augmented GARCH models encompassing most commonly used specifications. The existence of positive-power moments of the strictly stationary solution is characterized through the Moment Generating Function...

The paper establishes the Local Asymptotic Normality (LAN) property for general conditionally heteroskedastic time series models of multiplicative form, $\epsilon_t=\sigma_t(\btheta_0)\eta_t$, where the volatility $\sigma_t(\btheta_0)$ is a parametric function of $\{\epsilon_{s}, s t\}$, and...