Let a process SI , ... ,ST obey the conditionally heteroskedastic equation St = Vt Et whcrc Et is a random noise and Vt is the volatility coefficient which in turn obeys an autoregression type equation log v t = w + a S t- l + nt with an additional noise nt. We consider the situation which the...

Suppose that one observes a process Y on the unit interval, where dY(t) = n 1/ 2f(t)dt + dW(t) with an unknown function parameter f, given scale parameter n N 1 ("sample size") and standard Brownian motion W. We propose two classes of tests of qualitative nonparametric hypotheses about f such...

Price variations observed at speculative markets exhibit positive autocorrelation and cross correlation among a set of assets, stock market indices, exchange rates etc. A particular problem in investigating multivariate volatility processes arises from the high dimensionality implied by a...