Raberto, Marco; Scalas, Enrico; Cuniberti, Gianaurelio; … - EconWPA - 2004
. Our aim is to empirically characterize the volatility random walk in the framework of continuous–time finance. To this end …, we compute the index volatility by means of the log–return standard deviation. We choose an hourly time window in order … to investigate intraday properties of volatility. A periodic component is found for the hourly time window, in agreement …