This paper deals with the estimation of continuous time stochastic volatility models of option pricing. We argue that option prices are much more informative about the parameters than asset prices. This is confirmed in a Monte Carlo experiment which compares two very simple strategies based on...

Some aspects of the econometric identification and estimation of production functions are discussed focusing on the issue of simultaneity and reviewing the response to it since Douglas's early studies and Marschak and Andrews critique of them. We look primarily at the work that uses micro data...

We propose a new approach to tail analysis for data featuring high degrees of leptokurtosis. Heavy tails can typically be found in financial series, like stock returns or durations between trade arrivals. Our method of tail assessment consists in fitting selected pseudo-models to varying subsets...

This paper studies a classical extension of the Black and Scholes model for option pricing, often known as the Hull and White model. Our specificity is that the volatility process is assumed not only to be stochastic, but also to have long memory features and properties.