Forecasting volatility with a stacked model based on a hybridized Artificial Neural Network

An appropriate calibration and forecasting of volatility and market risk are some of the main challenges faced by companies that have to manage the uncertainty inherent to their investments or funding opera- tions such as banks, pension funds or insurance companies. This has become even more evident...

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Autores: Ramos Pérez, Eduardo, Alonso González, Pablo Jesús|||0000-0002-4999-0151, Núñez Velázquez, José Javier|||0000-0002-7084-5629
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/59169
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59169
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.03.046
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Machine learning
Stacking algorithms
Risk assessment
Volatility forecasting
Hybrid models
Economía
Economics
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Resumo:An appropriate calibration and forecasting of volatility and market risk are some of the main challenges faced by companies that have to manage the uncertainty inherent to their investments or funding opera- tions such as banks, pension funds or insurance companies. This has become even more evident after the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis, when the forecasting models assessing the market risk and volatility failed. Since then, a significant number of theoretical developments and methodologies have appeared to im- prove the accuracy of the volatility forecasts and market risk assessments. Following this line of thinking, this paper introduces a model based on using a set of Machine Learning techniques, such as Gradient Descent Boosting, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Artificial Neural Network, where those al- gorithms are stacked to predict S&P500 volatility. The results suggest that our construction outperforms other habitual models on the ability to forecast the level of volatility, leading to a more accurate assess- ment of the market risk