The news impact curve plots the next period volatility (ht) that would arise from various positive and negative values of ut-1, given an estimated model.
News Impact Curves for S&P 500 Returns using Coefficients from GARCH and GJR Model Estimates:
Producing conditional variance forecasts from GARCH models uses a very similar approach to producing forecasts from ARMA models.
It is again an exercise in iterating with the conditional expectations operator.
Consider the following GARCH(1,1) model:
, ut N(0,t2),
What is needed is to generate forecasts of T+12 T, T+22 T, ..., T+s2 T where T denotes all information available up to and including observation T.
Adding one to each of the time subscripts of the above conditional variance equation, and then two, and then three would yield the following equations