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Identifying the successive Blumenthal–Getoor indices of a discretely observed process

Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Jean Jacod

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Abstract

This paper studies the identification of the Lévy jump measure of a discretely-sampled semimartingale. We define successive Blumenthal–Getoor indices of jump activity, and show that the leading index can always be identified, but that higher order indices are only identifiable if they are sufficiently close to the previous one, even if the path is fully observed. This result establishes a clear boundary on which aspects of the jump measure can be identified on the basis of discrete observations, and which cannot. We then propose an estimation procedure for the identifiable indices and compare the rates of convergence of these estimators with the optimal rates in a special parametric case, which we can compute explicitly.

Article information

Source
Ann. Statist., Volume 40, Number 3 (2012), 1430-1464.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 September 2012

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1346850061

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/12-AOS976

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3015031

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1297.62051

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. Identifying the successive Blumenthal–Getoor indices of a discretely observed process. Ann. Statist. 40 (2012), no. 3, 1430--1464. doi:10.1214/12-AOS976. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1346850061


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Supplemental materials

  • Supplementary material: Supplement to “Identifying the successive Blumenthal–Getoor indices of a discretely observed process”. This supplement contains the proof of Theorem 4.
    Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/12-AOS976SUPP
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