Filtering and forecasting with misspecified ARCH models II
研究误设的ARCH模型在滤波和预测中的表现，发现正确设定状态变量条件矩的函数形式是关键，并应用于期权定价中的随机波动率模型。
A companion paper (Nelson, 1992) showed that in data observed at high frequencies, an ARCH model may perform well in estimating the conditional variance of a process, even when the ARCH model is severely misspecified. While such models may perform reasonably well at filtering (i.e., at estimating unobserved instantaneous conditional variances), they may perform disastrously at medium- and long-term forecasting of the process and its volatility. In this paper, we develop conditions under which a misspecified ARCH model successfully performs both tasks, filtering and forecasting. The key requirement (in addition to the conditions for consistent filtering) is that the ARCH model correctly specifies the functional form of the first two conditional moments of all state variables. We apply these results to a diffusion model employed in the options pricing literature, the stochastic volatility model of Hull and White (1987), Scott (1987), and Wiggins (1987).