This paper introduces the Markov-Switching Multifractal Duration (MSMD) model by adapting the MSM stochastic volatility model of Calvet and Fisher (2004) to the duration setting. Although the MSMD process is exponential ß-mixing as we show in the paper, it is capable of generating highly...

We establish sufficient conditions on durations that arestationary with finite variance and memory parameter $d \in[0,1/2)$ to ensure that the corresponding counting process $N(t)$satisfies $Var N(t) \sim C t^{2d+1}$ ($Cgt;0$) as $t\rightarrow \infty$, with the same memory parameter $d...