Mathematical Modeling of the Price Volatility of Maize and Sorghum between 1960 and 2022

Table 4.

Parameter estimates for ARCH/GARCH Models for Maize Returns

Parameter ARCH GARCH(1 1) EGARCH TGRACH PARCH CGARCG IGARCH

Constant (C) 0.008371 (0.00207) 0.008406 (0.00206) 0.005840 (0.00191) 0.006180 (0.00219) 0.005690 (0.00228) 0.006039 (0.00206) 0.000141 (0.00099)
Intercept (βo) 0.002332 (0.00008) 0.002257 (0.00013) -4.93444 (0.43957) 0.002286 (0.00014) 2.65E-11 (0.00000) 0.683604 (0.30763)  
ARCH term (β1) 0.712570(0.02800) 0.713032 (0.02837) 0.752085 (0.04621) 0.173906 (0.05994) 0.334664 (0.28167) 0.999855 (0.00005) 0.051931 (0.00236)
GARCH term (α1)   0.017303 (0.025940) -0.326653 (0.040857) 0.037320 (0.025652) 0.387015 (0.05865) 0.093682 (0.019705) 0.948069 (0.00236)
Γ     0.213528 (0.077285) 0.896184 (0.079941) 0.001232 (0.00641) 0.439889 (0.031436)  
d         1.0000    
Ø           -0.034500 (0.048785  
β1 + α1   0.730335 0.425432 0.211226 0.721679 1.093537 1.0000
µ   122.4135 122.4135 122.4135 122.4135 122.4135 122.4135
Log L 1043.861 1043.943 1053.490 1058.354 1063.885 1061.443 1006.588
AIC -2.768248 -2.765805 -2.788538 -2.801472 -2.81352 -2.807029 -2.671777
SC -2.749806 -2.741216 -2.757802 -2.770736 -2.77664 -2.770145 -2.659483

Note: Numbers in parenthesis indicate standard error