Explaining stock returns' volatility with ARCH models

In this recipe, we approach the problem of explaining the conditional volatility of stock returns, with the Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) model.

The logic of the ARCH method can be represented by the following equations:

The first equation represents the return series as a combination of the expected return μ and the unexpected return t. The latter one is also known ...

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