Bollerslev, Tim; Li, Jia; Liao, Zhipeng - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1053-1084
We present a new theory for the conduct of nonparametric inference about the latent spot volatility of a semimartingale … in local estimation blocks, our theory treats the estimation block size k as fixed. While the resulting spot volatility … estimator is no longer consistent, the new theory permits the construction of asymptotically valid and easy …