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Activity Number: 604
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Thursday, August 5, 2010 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Business and Economic Statistics Section
Abstract - #306315
Title: Studying the Leverage Effect Based on High-Frequency Data
Author(s): Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jianqing Fan and Yingying Li*+
Companies: Princeton University and Princeton University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Address: Department of ISOM (room 4412), HKUST, Hong Kong, International, , China
Keywords: Leverage Effect ; High-Frequency Data ; Realized Volatility ; Market Microstructure ; Heston Model
Abstract:

We show how high-frequency data can be used to detect the leverage effect, and explain why extra caution has to be used when one studies the leverage effect based on the asymptotic results of the high-frequency volatility estimators .


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