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I apologise, if these question are trivial, but I am currently trying to estimate a family of GARCH models for a selection of return series as part of an undergraduate project for which I am having to do a fair amount of self-teaching.

I am following the instruction given in Tsay: Analysis of Financial Time series and upon finding the expected ARCH effects using LM/LB tests, would now like to proceed estimating the models.

  1. However, I am having difficulties selecting the order of the mean equation, which I assume to be some form of ARMA model. Given that the mean equation and GARCH model should be jointly estimated, how do I go ahead selecting the order of the mean equation?

    Tsay suggests the typical Box-Jenkins methodology of either using AIC/BIC/AICc or PACF plots when building an ARMA model, however, I believe this would lead to a sequential estimation process, based upon wrong assumptions, as volatility is not constant over time.

    Do I estimate (for instance) 25 different ARMA(p,q)-GARCH(1,1) models and compare their AIC/AICc/BIC or how would I go ahead selecting the mean equation?

  2. Furthermore, is there a package in R that gives me a series of one-day ahead forecasts of volatility based upon previously estimated parameters?

    So, given an GARCH-model that has been estimated in-sample, can I use the in-sample coefficients to predict one-day ahead forecasts out-of-sample?

    I luckily have a series of Realised Variance to work with when comparing the models.

Pedestrian
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  • The AR(1)/GARCH(1,1) is the most commonly used model for log-returns. [look here](http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/9351/algorithm-to-fit-ar1-garch1-1-model-of-log-returns) –  Jul 16 '16 at 18:21
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    Tsay has written quite a few things. Could you please give the specific reference you are following, for the benefit of future generations? Thank you! – Stephan Kolassa Jul 16 '16 at 18:54
  • Some related threads: [1](http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/154754/how-to-choose-the-order-of-a-garch-model), [2](http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/175400/optimal-lag-order-selection-for-a-garch-model), [3](http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/159807/arma-garch-model-selection-fit-evaluation). – Richard Hardy Jul 17 '16 at 17:06

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