This paper looks at some recent work on estimating quadratic variation using realized variance (RV) - that is, sums of M squared returns. This econometrics has been motivated by the advent of the common availability of high-frequency financial return data. When the underlying process is a...

In this article we provide an asymptotic distribution theory for some nonparametric tests of the hypothesis that asset prices have continuous sample paths. We study the behaviour of the tests using simulated data and see that certain versions of the tests have good finite sample behavior. We...

The question how to allocate capital best is as old as financial markets themselves. Maximizing expected gains only might be a good approach but cannot be the best answer because usually high expected gains are driven by highly speculative and risky investments.In this thesis we study economic...

The main focus of this work is theanalysis of price direction processes at transaction level ofdifferent stocks traded at the NYSE. Three different models havebeen applied to the data, namely the autoregressive conditionalmultinomial model, a probit model with latent ARMA-process anddifferent...

In recent years a substantial amount of literature in one way or another deals with liquidity. The interest in it grows beyond the walls of the academia, as the security exchanges recognize the importance of the concept and plan to adopt unique measures of liquidity and publish them in the...

Value-at-risk (VaR) model as a tool to estimate market risk is considered in the thesis. It is a statistical model defined as the maximum future loss due to likely changes in the value of financial assets portfolio during a certain period with a certain probability. A new definition of the...

Disertacijoje nagrinėjamas vertės pokyčio rizikos modelis. Tai toks statistinis modelis, kurį taikant su tam tikra tikimybe įvertinamas didžiausias galimas nustatyto laikotarpio nuostolis, kredito įstaigos patiriamas dėl neigiamų taikomos finansinės priemonės vertės pokyčių....

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2010.