LAUSR

The double-threshold autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (DTARCH) model is a useful tool to measure and forecast the mean and volatility of an asset return in a financial time series. The DTARCH model can handle situations wherein the conditional mean and conditional variance specifications are piecewise linear based on previous information. In practical applications, it is important to check whether the model has a double threshold for the conditional mean and conditional heteroscedastic variance. In this study, we develop a likelihood ratio test based on the estimated residual error for the hypothesis testing of DTARCH models. We first investigate DTARCH models with restrictions on parameters and propose the unrestricted and restricted weighted composite quantile regression (WCQR) estimation for the model parameters. These estimators can be used to construct the likelihood ratio-type test statistic. We establish the asymptotic results of the WCQR estimators and asymptotic distribution of the proposed test statistics. The finite sample performance of the proposed WCQR estimation and the test statistic is shown to be acceptable and promising using simulation studies. We use two real datasets derived from the Shanghai and Shenzhen Composite Indexes to illustrate the methodology.