Nonparametric change-point analysis of volatility
Markus Bibinger,
Moritz Jirak and
Mathias Vetter
No 2015-008, SFB 649 Discussion Papers from Humboldt University Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk
Abstract:
This work develops change-point methods for statistics of high-frequency data. The main interest is the volatility of an Itô semi-martingale, which is discretely observed over a fixed time horizon. We construct a minimax-optimal test to discriminate different smoothness classes of the underlying stochastic volatility process. In a high-frequency framework we prove weak convergence of the test statistic under the hypothesis to an extreme value distribution. As a key example, under extremely mild smoothness assumptions on the stochastic volatility we thereby derive a consistent test for volatility jumps. A simulation study demonstrates the practical value in finite-sample applications.
Keywords: high-frequency data; nonparametric change-point test; minimax-optimal test; stochastic volatility; volatility jumps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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