This work develops change-point methods for statistics of high-frequency data. The main interest is the volatility of … discriminate different smoothness classes of the underlying stochastic volatility process. In a high-frequency framework we prove … extremely mild smoothness assumptions on the stochastic volatility we thereby derive a consistent test for volatility jumps. A …

The paper examines the relative performance of Stochastic Volatility (SV) and Generalised Autoregressive Conditional … Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) (1,1) models fitted to ten years of daily data for FTSE. As a benchmark, we used the realized volatility (RV … two standard volatility models if the simple expedient of using lagged squared demeaned daily returns provides a better RV …