Research Article

Estimation and Properties of a Time-Varying GQARCH(1,1)-M Model

Table 1

Comparison between the efficient and inefficient MCMC simulator.

  MAPIRTime (CPU effort)
𝑡 = 8 0 𝑡 = 1 6 0 𝑇 = 2 4 0 𝑇 = 2 4 0 0 𝑇 = 2 4 0 0 0

Inefficient 0.16338 45.1748 47.3602 0.031250 4.046875 382.05532
Single-move 0.60585 8.74229 110.245 0.001000 0.015625 0.1083750

Note: MAP denotes mean acceptance probability over the whole sample, while IR refers to inefficiency ratio of the MCMC drawings at observations 80 and 160. Time refers to the total CPU time (in seconds) taken to simulate one complete drawing.