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I wish to model monthly EUR/USD exchange rate by an ARFIMA($p,d,q$) model.

My question is, how to determine the $d$ parameter of this model?

Stephan Kolassa
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Since $d$ can take a continuum of values, there is no simple choice as opposed to the case of integer orders of integration, where you normally choose between $d=0$ and $d=1$ (and, rarely, $d=2$). Software can estimate $d$ for you. In R, check out package "rugarch" and its functions arfimaspec, arfimafit. If you want more details, Ooms & Doornik (1999) consider different ways of estimating ARFIMA models.

References:

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Several approaches have been discussed, you must determine if the time series is stationary and if it's a long memory process first. CastaƱo (2008) suggest to estimate the model $ARFIMA(p^{*},d^{*},0)$ where $p^{*}=round(T^{(1/3)})$ and T the number of observations, if $0< d^{*} \leq 0.5$ then you have to use conventional box-jenkings methods to model the short-memory dependence, that is,to estimate the parameters from:

$Y_{t} (1-L)^{d^{*}} \quad \sim \quad ARMA(p,q)$

for more details go tohttps://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/estad/article/view/29594

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