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Efficient Volatility Estimation for Lévy Processes with Jumps of Unbounded Variation

B. Cooper Boniece, José E. Figueroa-López, Yuchen Han

arXiv 2 Feb 2022 · Econometrics

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Abstract

Statistical inference for stochastic processes based on high-frequency observations has been an active research area for more than a decade. One of the most well-known and widely studied problems is that of estimation of the quadratic variation of the continuous component of an It\^o semimartingale with jumps. Several rate- and variance-efficient estimators have been proposed in the literature when the jump component is of bounded variation. However, to date, very few methods can deal with jumps of unbounded variation. By developing new high-order expansions of the truncated moments of a L\'evy process, we construct a new rate- and variance-efficient estimator for a class of L\'evy processes of unbounded variation, whose small jumps behave like those of a stable L\'evy process with Blumenthal-Getoor index less than $8/5$. The proposed method is based on a two-step debiasing procedure for the truncated realized quadratic variation of the process. Our Monte Carlo experiments indicate that the method outperforms other efficient alternatives in the literature in the setting covered by our theoretical framework.

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