Author(s)
Kim, Jong-Min / Jung, Hojin / Qin, Li
Abstract
This article proposes power transformation of absolute returns as a new proxy of latent volatility in the stochastic model. We generalize Giles´(2008) results in that we place no restriction on the power of absolute returns. An empirical investigation on the bias, mean square error, and relative bias is carried out for the proposed proxy. Simulation results show that the new estimator exhibiting negligible bias appears to be more efficient than the unbiased estimator with high variance.
Keywords
Volatility, stochastic volatility, relative bias, mean square error
Kim, J. / Jung, H. / Qin, L.: A New Generalized Volatility Proxy via the Stochastic Volatility Model, Applied Economics, Vol. 49 (23) 2017, pp. 2259-2268