Chib, Siddhartha; Shephard, Neil; Nardari, Federico - 2001
This paper is concerned with simulation based inference in generalized models of stochastic volatility defined by heavy …-tailed student-t distributions (with unknown degrees of freedom) and covariate effects in the observation and volatility equations … applied in detail to daily returns data on the S&P 500 index where several stochastic volatility models are formally compared …