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Selective linear segmentation for detecting relevant parameter changes

Arnaud Dufays, Aristide Houndetoungan, Alain Coën

arXiv 8 Feb 2024 · Econometrics

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Abstract

Change-point processes are one flexible approach to model long time series. We propose a method to uncover which model parameter truly vary when a change-point is detected. Given a set of breakpoints, we use a penalized likelihood approach to select the best set of parameters that changes over time and we prove that the penalty function leads to a consistent selection of the true model. Estimation is carried out via the deterministic annealing expectation-maximization algorithm. Our method accounts for model selection uncertainty and associates a probability to all the possible time-varying parameter specifications. Monte Carlo simulations highlight that the method works well for many time series models including heteroskedastic processes. For a sample of 14 Hedge funds (HF) strategies, using an asset based style pricing model, we shed light on the promising ability of our method to detect the time-varying dynamics of risk exposures as well as to forecast HF returns.

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1Inference for Two-Stage Extremum EstimatorsFor comments and suggestions, we are grateful to Arnaud Dufays, Ulrich Hounyo, Mathieu Marcoux, Antoine Djogbenou, Frank Windmeijer, Xiaohong Chen, Jean-Marie Dufour, Jad Beyhum, Prosper Dovonon, Désiré Kédagni, Pamela Giustinelli and Florian Pelgrin. We also thank the participants of the EDHEX Business School econometric seminar, the CIREQ econometric seminar, the 58th Annual Meetings of the CEA, and the 2024 conference of IAAE. Replication codes for the results from this research are available at https://github.com/ahoundetoungan/InferenceTSE0.40511