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Tail behaviour of the stationary density of general non-linear autoregressive processes of order 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Jean Diebolt*
Affiliation:
Université Paris VI
Dominique Guégan*
Affiliation:
Université Paris XIII
*
∗∗ Postal address: L.S.T.A. University Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, Tour 45–55, 75252 Paris CEDEX 05, France.
∗∗∗ Postal address: Institut Galilée, Dept of Mathematics, University Paris XIII, Av. J.B. Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France.

Abstract

We examine the main properties of the Markov chain Xt = T(Xt– 1) + σ(Xt– 1)ε t. Under general and tractable assumptions, we derive bounds for the tails of the stationary density of the process {Xt} in terms of the common density of the ε t's.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1993 

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