Strong consistent model selection for general causal time series

Abstract: We consider the strongly consistent question for model selection in a large class of causal time series models, including AR($\infty$), ARCH($\infty$), TARCH($\infty$), ARMA-GARCH and many classical others processes. We propose a penalized criterion based on the quasi likelihood of the model. We provide sufficient conditions that ensure the strong consistency of the proposed procedure. Also, the estimator of the parameter of the selected model obeys the law of iterated logarithm. It appears that, unlike the result of the weak consistency obtained by Bardet {\it et al.} \cite{Bardet2020}, a dependence between the regularization parameter and the model structure is not needed.