Measuring and forecasting financial variability using realised variance.

Authors use high frequency financial data to proxy, via the realised variance, each day's financial variability. Based on a semiparametric stochastic volatility process, a limit theory shows you can represent the proxy as a true underlying variability plus some measurement noise with known char...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barndorff-Nielsen, O, Nielsen, B, Shephard, N, Ysusi, C
Other Authors: Harvey, A
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2004