Montag, 03. April 2017, 16:45 - 17:45 iCal

ISOR Colloquium

"Nonparametric change-point analysis of volatility"

Speaker: Markus Bibinger (Univ. Marburg)

Sky Lounge OMP 1 (12th Floor)
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna

Vortrag


In this work we develop change-point methods for statistics of high-frequency data. The main interest is in the volatility of an Itô semimartingale, the latter being discretely observed over a fixed time horizon. We construct a minimax-optimal test to discriminate continuous paths from paths with volatility jumps, and it is shown that the test can be embedded into a more general theory to infer the smoothness of volatilities. In a high-frequency setting we prove weak convergence of the test statistic under the hypothesis to an extreme value distribution. Moreover, we develop methods to infer changes in the Hurst parameters of fractional volatility processes. A simulation study is conducted to demonstrate the performance of our methods in finite-sample applications.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Statistik und Operations Research


Kontakt

Mag. Vera Lehmwald
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Statistik und Operations Research
+43 1 4277 38651
vera.lehmwald@univie.ac.at