Estimating quadratic variation when quoted prices jump by a constant increment

Financial assets' quoted prices normally change through frequent revisions, or jumps. For markets where quotes are almost always revised by the minimum price tick, this paper proposes a new estimator of Quadratic Variation which is robust to microstructure effects. It compares the number of alt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Large, J
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2005