Several recent studies advocate the use of nonparametric estimators of daily price variability that exploit intraday information. This paper compares four such estimators, realised volatility, realised range, realised power variation and realised bipower variation, by examining their in-sample...

We investigate the univariate procedure used by Ane and Geman (AG, 2000) to recover the moments of the information flow from high-frequency data, in a mixture of distributions model which generalizes the subordinated process in Clark (1973). We explain why the third and higher moments of the...

We review the time series econometrics package TSMod. The new features in TSMod 4.03, released in April 2004, are described and its potential for teaching is analysed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.