Nagakura, Daisuke; Watanabe, Toshiaki - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2011
We call the realized variance (RV), calculated with observed prices contaminated by (market) microstructure noises (MNs), the noise-contaminated RV (NCRV), and refer to the bias component in the NCRV, associated with the MNs, as the MN component. This paper develops a state space method for...