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We investigate the realised volatility (RV) forecasts for the short, mid, and long term by develo** the HAR models with Bayesian approaches and employing the high-frequency data of the China Stock Index 300 (CSI300) future for the period from 16 April 2010 to 21 May 2014. We also evaluate the performances of competing models for both in-sample forecasts and out-of-sample forecasts. We find that the proposed HAR-type models with Bayesian approaches capture the time-varying properties of parameters and predictor sets. We also find that the HAR-type models with Bayesian approaches have superior forecast performance for both in-sample forecasts and out-of-sample forecasts as compared with the benchmark HAR-type models.
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* We gratefully acknowledge the valuable suggestions made by the Executive Editor of the China Accounting and Finance Review and the anonymous referees. This research is supported by the China Social Science Foundation under Grant No. 14ZDA020, the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of Chinese Ministry of Education under Grant No. 14YJA7900.
1 Jiawen Luo, Ph.D candidate, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, P. R. China; email: 2jialuo@163.com.
2 Langnan Chen, corresponding author, Professor of Finance and Economics, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, P. R. China; email: lnscln@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
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Luo, J., Chen, L. Realised Volatility Forecasts for Stock Index Futures Using the HAR Models with Bayesian Approaches * . China Account Financ Rev 18, 2 (2016). https://doi.org/10.7603/s40570-016-0002-9
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