Hafner, Christian M.; Breitung, Jörg - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014
Nowcasting volatility of financial time series appears difficult with classical volatility models. This paper proposes … volatility, given past and current returns, in a very simple way. The model can be viewed as a degenerate case of the stochastic … volatility model with perfect correlation between the two error terms. It is shown that the volatility nowcasts do not depend on …