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On the validity of the Jarque-Bera normality test in conditionally heteroskedastic dynamic regression models

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  • Fiorentini, Gabriele
  • Sentana, Enrique
  • Calzolari, Giorgio

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We show that the Jarque-Bera test, originally devised for constant conditional variance models with no functional dependence between conditional mean and variance parameters, can be safely applied to a broad class of GARCH-M models, but not to all.
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  • Fiorentini, Gabriele & Sentana, Enrique & Calzolari, Giorgio, 2004. "On the validity of the Jarque-Bera normality test in conditionally heteroskedastic dynamic regression models," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 83(3), pages 307-312, June.
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