A Nonlinear Structural Model for Volatility Clustering

21 Pages Posted: 23 Oct 2000

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Andrea Gaunersdorfer

University of Vienna, Deparment of Finance

Cars H. Hommes

Government of Canada - Bank of Canada; CeNDEF, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute

Date Written: September 1, 2000

Abstract

A simple nonlinear structural model of endogenous belief heterogeneity is proposed. News about fundamentals is an IID random process, but nevertheless volatility clustering occurs as an endogenous phenomenon caused by the interaction between different types of traders, fundamentalists and technical analysts. The belief types are driven by an adaptive, evolutionary dynamics according to the success of the prediction strategies in the recent past conditioned upon price deviations from the rational expectations fundamental price. Asset prices switch irregularly between two different regimes - close to the fundamental price fluctuations with low volatility, and periods of persistent deviations from fundamentals where the market is dominated by technical trading - thus, creating time varying volatility similar to that observed in real financial data.

JEL Classification: G12, D84, E32

Suggested Citation

Gaunersdorfer, Andrea and Hommes, Cars H., A Nonlinear Structural Model for Volatility Clustering (September 1, 2000). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=241349 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.241349

Andrea Gaunersdorfer

University of Vienna, Deparment of Finance ( email )

Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Vienna, 1090
Austria

HOME PAGE: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/andrea.gaunersdorfer

Cars H. Hommes (Contact Author)

Government of Canada - Bank of Canada ( email )

234 Wellington Street
Ontario, Ottawa K1A 0G9
Canada

CeNDEF, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam ( email )

Roetersstraat 11
Amsterdam, NL-1018WB
Netherlands

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Tinbergen Institute ( email )

Burg. Oudlaan 50
Rotterdam, 3062 PA
Netherlands

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