Barsotti, Flavia; Sanfelici, Simona - In: Econometrics : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-31
Default probability is a fundamental variable determining the credit worthiness of a firm and equity volatility … choosing different non parametric equity volatility estimators on default probability evaluation, when market microstructure … noise is considered. A general stochastic volatility framework with jumps for the underlying asset dynamics is defined …