Unified discrete-time and continuous-time models and statistical inferences for merged low-frequency and high-frequency financial data

Donggyu Kim and Yazhen Wang

Journal of Econometrics, 2016, vol. 194, issue 2, 220-230

Abstract: This paper introduces a unified model, which can accommodate both continuous-time Itô processes used to model high-frequency stock prices and GARCH processes employed to model low-frequency stock prices, by embedding a discrete-time GARCH volatility in its continuous-time instantaneous volatility. This model is called a unified GARCH-Itô model. We adopt realized volatility estimators based on high-frequency financial data and the quasi-likelihood function for the low-frequency GARCH structure to develop parameter estimation methods for the combined high-frequency and low-frequency data. We establish asymptotic theory for the proposed estimators and conduct a simulation study to check finite sample performances of the estimators. We apply the proposed estimation approach to Bank of America stock price data.

Keywords: GARCH; Itô process; Quasi-maximum likelihood estimator; Realized volatility; Stochastic differential equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C22 C58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407616300914
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:econom:v:194:y:2016:i:2:p:220-230

DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.05.003

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Econometrics is currently edited by T. Amemiya, A. R. Gallant, J. F. Geweke, C. Hsiao and P. M. Robinson

More articles in Journal of Econometrics from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().