Abstract
Markov chain theory is applied to the nonlinear modelling of conditional variance with focus on the in financial econometrics widely applied class of multivariate autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (ARCH) processes. The multivariate socalled BEKK-ARCH of Engle and Kroner (1995) as well as other multivariate ARCH processes in the literature are discussed. The results show that an essential regularity condition for the existence of moments is that the largest modulus of the eigenvalues or equivalently, that the spectral radius of a certain matrix Φ parametrizing the conditional heteroscedasticity in the ARCH process is smaller than one. Due to the fact that multivariate systems are considered it is demonstrated that an important step in the derivations is based on changing the measure of size of the matrix Φ from norm to spectral radius.
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