On the Robustness of Mixture Models in the Presence of Hidden Markov Regimes with Covariate-Dependent Transition Probabilities
Demian Pouzo (),
Zacharias Psaradakis () and
Martin Sola
Department of Economics Working Papers from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Abstract:
We consider general hidden Markov models that may include exogenous covariates and whose discrete-state-space regime sequence has transition probabilities that are functions of observable variables. We show that the parameters of the observation conditional distribution are consistently estimated by quasi-maximum-likelihood even if the Markov dependence of the hidden regime sequence is not taken into account. Some related numerical results are also discussed.
Keywords: Consistency; covariate-dependent transition probabilities; hidden Markov model; mixture model; quasi-maximum-likelihood; misspecified model. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2024-06
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