Abstract:Volatility modeling and forecasts are essential tools to all financial sectors. This paper focuses on weekly exchange rate returns of the FRW versus USD from 2012 until 2018 obtained from the National Bank of Rwanda. The aim of this paper is to formulate an appropriate GARCH model which fits the data. The GARCH(1,1) model has been selected after using required techniques of model selection.Parameters have been estimated using Least Squares method first and then validated using MCMC method. Once the chain of pa… Show more
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