Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59488 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-17
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
The topic of volatility measurement and estimation is central to financial and more generally time series econometrics. In this paper, we begin by surveying models of volatility, both discrete and continuous, and then we summarize some selected empirical findings from the literature. In particular, in the first sections of this paper, we discuss important developments in volatility models, with focus on time varying and stochastic volatility as well as nonparametric volatility estimation. The models discussed share the common feature that volatilities are unobserved, and belong to the class of missing variables. We then provide empirical evidence on small and large jumps from the perspective of their contribution to overall realized variation, using high frequency price return data on 25 stocks in the DOW 30. Our small and large jump variations are constructed at three truncation levels, using extant methodology of Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard (2006), Andersen, Bollerslev and Diebold (2007) and Aït-Sahalia and Jacod (2009a,b,c). Evidence of jumps is found in around 22.8% of the days during the 1993-2000 period, much higher than the corresponding figure of 9.4% during the 2001-2008 period. While the overall role of jumps is lessening, the role of large jumps has not decreased, and indeed, the relative role of large jumps, as a proportion of overall jumps has actually increased in the 2000s.
Subjects: 
Itô semi-martingale
realized volatility
jumps
quadratic volatility
multipower variation
tripower variation
truncated power variation
quarticity
infinite activity jumps
JEL: 
C22
C58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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