Lee, Tae Suk (1976; Ploberger, Werner; Yildiz, Nese
This dissertation consists of two essays dealing respectively with estimation of volatility and test for a jump using … high frequency data. Chapter 1 investigates the properties of pre-averaging estimators of integrated volatility, ?first …-optimal estimator of the integrated volatility. In addition, we derive a bootstrap statistic to assess the variance of our estimator …