On stability of nonlinear AR processes with Markov switching

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The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability problem for the following nonlinear autoregressive (NAR) model with Markov switching (NAR-MS): Let \({\mathbf X}= (X_n)\) be a positive Markov chain on a finite set \(\{1,2,\dots, m\}\), and a NAR-MS process \({\mathbf Y}\) defined by the recurrent relation \[ Y_n= f_{X_n}(Y_{n- 1})+ \varepsilon_n,\quad Y_n\in{\mathbf R}^d,\quad n\geq 1.\tag{YM} \] \(\varepsilon= (\varepsilon_n)_{n\geq 0}\) is the error process, \((f_k)\), \(k= 1,2,\dots, m\), is a family of NAR functions, and \(\varepsilon\), \({\mathbf X}\), and \(Y_0\) are assumed to be independent. The stability of the NAR-MS model \({\mathbf Y}\) is manifested by obtaining suitable conditions to solve the following three problems: Problem A: The existence and the uniqueness of a strictly stationary ergodic solution for the NAR-MS model \({\mathbf Y}\); Problem B: The existence of the moments for the solution of \({\mathbf Y}\) considered in Problem A; Problem C: To establish limit theorems (including strong law of large numbers and the central limit theorem) as a basic tool for an asymptotic estimation theory of the NAR-MS model \({\mathbf Y}\). Section 2 introduces an extended Markov chain associated with the NAR-MS model \({\mathbf Y}\), and establishes some preliminary results. Section 3 investigates the Problems A, B, and C and provides solutions for the case when the autoregressive functions \(f_k\) \((k=1,2,\dots, m)\) in (YM) are sublinear functions. Section 4 analyses the same three problems for the case when the functions \(f_k\) are assumed to be Lipschitz ones.




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