A Bayesian approach to term structure modeling using heavy-tailed distributions

Authors:
Carlos Antonio Abanto-Valle;Victor H. Lachos;Pulak Ghosh
Affiliations:
Department of Statistics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68530, CEP: 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Department of Statistics, Campinas State University, Campinas, Brazil;Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
Venue:
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a robust extension of the three-factor model of Diebold and Li (J. Econometrics, 130: 337–364, 2006) using the class of symmetric scale mixtures of normal distributions. Specific distributions examined include the multivariate normal, Student-t, slash, and variance gamma distributions. In the presence of non-normality in the data, these distributions provide an appealing robust alternative to the routine use of the normal distribution. Using a Bayesian paradigm, we developed an efficient MCMC algorithm for parameter estimation. Moreover, the mixing parameters obtained as a by-product of the scale mixture representation can be used to identify outliers. Our results reveal that the Diebold–Li models based on the Student-t and slash distributions provide significant improvement in in-sample fit and out-of-sample forecast to the US yield data than the usual normal-based model. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.