. Our estimates are based on in-fill asymptotics for directly identifying the jumps, together with Extreme Value Theory (EVT … that the distributions of the systematic and idiosyncratic jumps are both generally heavy-tailed and close to symmetric …

We estimate a general microstructure model of the transitory and permanent impact of order flow on stock prices. Jumps …-capitalization stocks traded on the Euronext-Paris Bourse. We find that, at tick frequency, the overnight return, the intraday jumps, and … microstructure model explains on average 47.7% of the total variation. Once jumps are filtered and parameters are estimated in real …

extent to which the ECB caused jumps in euro area interest rates. The new surprises still prevail upon the traditional ones …. Jumps play a great role in the variation of interest rates and the ECB induced several jumps with its decisions, but its …

includes (i) Gaussian shocks with stochastic variance, (ii) jumps up and down in the exchange rate, and (iii) jumps in the … probability of jumps in variance is increasing in the variance but not related to interest rates. Many of the jumps in exchange … rates are associated with macroeconomic and political news, but jumps in variance are not. Overall, jumps account for 25% of …