Annals of Statistics
- Ann. Statist.
- Volume 39, Number 3 (2011), 1689-1719.
Testing whether jumps have finite or infinite activity
Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Jean Jacod
Abstract
We propose statistical tests to discriminate between the finite and infinite activity of jumps in a semimartingale discretely observed at high frequency. The two statistics allow for a symmetric treatment of the problem: we can either take the null hypothesis to be finite activity, or infinite activity. When implemented on high-frequency stock returns, both tests point toward the presence of infinite-activity jumps in the data.
Article information
Source
Ann. Statist., Volume 39, Number 3 (2011), 1689-1719.
Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 25 July 2011
Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1311600280
Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/11-AOS873
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2850217
Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1234.62117
Subjects
Primary: 62F12: Asymptotic properties of estimators 62M05: Markov processes: estimation
Secondary: 60H10: Stochastic ordinary differential equations [See also 34F05] 60J60: Diffusion processes [See also 58J65]
Keywords
Semimartingale Brownian motion jumps finite activity infinite activity discrete sampling high frequency
Citation
Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Jacod, Jean. Testing whether jumps have finite or infinite activity. Ann. Statist. 39 (2011), no. 3, 1689--1719. doi:10.1214/11-AOS873. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1311600280
Supplemental materials
- Supplementary material: Supplement to “Testing whether jumps have finite or infinite activity”. This supplementary article contains a few additional technical details about the assumptions made in this paper, and the proofs of all results.Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/11-AOS873SUPP