Modelling Returns in US Housing Prices—You’re the One for Me, Fat Tails

In this paper, we analysed the heavy-tailed behaviour in the dynamics of housing-price returns in the United States. We investigated the sources of heavy tails by estimating autoregressive models in which innovations can be subject to GARCH effects and/or non-Gaussianity. Using monthly data from Jan...

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Autores principales: Tamás Kiss, Hoang Nguyen, Pär Österholm
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/22de06518bbc4d3490a8e628e66142fe
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Sumario:In this paper, we analysed the heavy-tailed behaviour in the dynamics of housing-price returns in the United States. We investigated the sources of heavy tails by estimating autoregressive models in which innovations can be subject to GARCH effects and/or non-Gaussianity. Using monthly data from January 1954 to September 2019, the properties of the models were assessed both within- and out-of-sample. We found strong evidence in favour of modelling both GARCH effects and non-Gaussianity. Accounting for these properties improves within-sample performance as well as point and density forecasts.