This paper proposes a parsimonious threshold stochastic volatility (SV) model for financial asset returns. Instead of … imposing a threshold value on the dynamics of the latent volatility process of the SV model, we assume that the innovation of … time-varying volatility of returns, but also can accommodate the asymmetric shape of conditional distribution of the …

called for. The approach is appealing when we consider state space models which feature stochastic volatility, or other non … stochastic volatility feature is particularly relevant when considering high frequency financial series. In addition, we propose … models. We assess the efficiency of our indirect inference estimator for the stochastic volatility model by comparing it with …