Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2018
In this paper we study the fractional moments of the stationary solution to the stochastic recurrence equation Xt = AtXt−1 + Bt, t ∈ Z, where ((At, Bt))t∈Z is an independent and identically distributed bivariate sequence. We derive recursive formulae for the fractional moments E|X0|p, p ∈ R. Special attention is given to the case when Bt has an Erlang distribution. We provide various approximations to the moments E|X0|p and show their performance in a small numerical study.
Research partly supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council (FNU) grant 10-084172 ‘Heavy tail phenomena: Modeling and estimation’.
Research partially supported by the ARO grant W911NF-07-1-0078, NSF grant DMS-1005903, and NSA grant H98230-11-1-0154 at Cornell University.
This paper was written when Laleh Tafakori visited the Department of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen in 2011. She takes pleasure to thank the host institution for its hospitality.