r-geovol

Simulation, estimation and inference for the geopolitical volatility (GEOVOL) model of Engle and Campos-Martins (2020) <doi:10.2139/ssrn.3685213>, where GEOVOL is modelled as a latent multiplicative volatility factor with heterogeneous factor loadings. Estimation is carried out as a maximization-maximization procedure, where GEOVOL and the GEOVOL loadings are estimated iteratively until convergence.