Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe increasing availability of financial market data at intraday frequencies has not only led to the development of improved volatility measurements but has also inspired research into their potential value as an information source for volatility forecasting. In this paper we explore the forecasting value of historical volatility (extracted from daily return series), of implied volatility (extracted from option pricing data) and of realised volatility (computed as the sum of squared high frequency returns within a day). First we consider unobserved components and long memory models for realised volatility which is regarded as an accurate estimator of volatility. The predictive abilities of realised volatility models are compared with those of stochastic volatility models and generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity models for daily return series. These historical volatility models are extended to include realised and implied volatility measures as explanatory variables for volatility. The main focus is on forecasting the daily variability of the Standard & Poor's 100 stock index series for which trading data (tick by tick) of almost seven years is analysed. The forecast assessment is based on the hypothesis of whether a forecast model is outperformed by alternative models. In particular, we will use superior predictive ability tests to investigate the relative forecast performances of some models. Since volatilities are not observed, realised volatility is taken as a proxy for actual volatility and is used for computing the forecast error. A stationary bootstrap procedure is required for computing the test statistic and its p-value. The empirical results show convincingly that realised volatility models produce far more accurate volatility forecasts compared to models based on daily returns. Long memory models seem to provide the most accurate forecasts.JEL classification: C22, C53, G15.

In this paper we compare the predictive abilility o f S t o c hastic Volatility (S V) models to that of volatility forecasts implied by option prices. We develop an SV model with implied volatility as an exogeneous variable in the variance equation which facilitates the use of statistical tests for nested models we refer to this model as the SVX model. The SVX model is then extended to a volatility model with persistence adjustment term and this we c a l l t h e S V X + model. This class of SV models can be estimated by quasi maximum likelihood methods but the main emphasis will be on methods for exact maximum likelihood using Monte Carlo importance sampling methods. The performance of the models is evaluated, both within sample and out-of-sample, for daily returns on the Standard & Poor's 100 index. Similar studies have been undertaken with GARCH models where ndings were initially mixed but recent research has indicated that implied volatility provides superior forecasts. We nd that implied volatility outperforms historical returns in-sample but that the latter contains incremental information in the form of stochastic shocks incorporated in the SVX models. The out-of-sample volatility forecasts are evaluated against daily squared returns and intradaily squared returns for forecasting horizons ranging from 1 to 10 days. For the daily squared returns we obtain mixed results, but when we use intradaily squared returns as a measure of realised volatility we nd that the SVX + model produces the most accurate out-of-sample volatility forecasts and that the model that only utilises implied volatility performes the worst as its volatility forecasts are upwardly biased.

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