Caporin, Massimiliano; Rossi, Eduardo; Magistris, Paolo … - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
The volatility of financial returns is characterized by rapid and large increments. We propose an extension of the … Heterogeneous Autoregressive model to incorporate jumps into the dynamics of the ex-post volatility measures. Using the realized …-range measures of 36 NYSE stocks, we show that there is a positive probability of jumps in volatility. A common factor in the …