Barra, István; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2014
these proposal densities are used in an independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. A particular feature of our approach is … that smoothed estimates of the states and the marginal likelihood are obtained directly as an output of the algorithm. Our … simulation evidence for stochastic volatility and stochastic intensity models. For our empirical study, we analyse the …