Hi I have a problem on how to proceed with further steps in my analysis. I did a linear OLS regression (ri,t=alpha*beta*rm,t+et) with my daily data of stock and index returns. There is now the problem of arch in my error terms. Thus I used the following r command: /garch(resid_desn, order=c(0,2)) ## This ARCH(2) process seems to fit the best after trial and error. Consequently, I get there three a's. (resid_desn are the residuals of the ols regression of the company desn) / And now I am stuck. For further analysis I want to estimate new alphas and betas which do incorporate this ARCH effect (thus including all the a's in some way). There is a paper which does this in a simple manner (see page 12 and 13 of http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1100573). It is described as follows: /Ri=alpha(arch)+beta(arch)*Rm,i+et ## equation one et=ut*sqrt(h) h=lamda(0)+lamda(1)*e(t-1)^2+lamda(2)*e(t-2)^2 ##e are the residuals of the ols regression / I don't know how I should include these a's in my linear regression to address this problem and get new alphas and betas. I tried to substitute and rearrange (h can be calculated from the ols and garch output, then I substitute et in equation one with ut*sqrt(h) and divide the whole equation by sqrt(h)). After the regression procedure there is still significant ARCH effect in my model. I don't know if dividing is the right step but without this, r would incorporate another error term. My assumption is that ut is an error term. The purpose of this is to estimate excess returns after the estimation period. (FOR INFORMATION: excess return without ammendements for ARCH effects is given as: ?t=Ri,t-alpha-beta*Rm,t) Thus my question is now: How can I regress this to get results without ARCH effect? I hope there is a solution for this problem or some hints on how I can use the output of the garch model for my linear regression and the estimation of new alphas and beta (with consideration of ARCH effects). *Help is really appreciated!!!* Kind regards Andi -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-ARCH-tp4632778.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.