Three essays on volatility measurement and modeling with price limits: A Bayesian approach.

详细信息   

• 作者：Gao ; Rui.
• 学历：Ph.D.
• 年：2014
• 毕业院校：Queen's University
• Department：Economics
• ISBN：9780499279262
• CBH：NS27926
• Country：Canada
• 语种：English
• FileSize：2337059
• Pages：124

文摘

This dissertation studies volatility measurement and modeling issues when asset prices are subject to price limits based on Bayesian approaches. Two types of estimators are developed to consistently estimate integrated volatility in the presence of price limits. One is a realized volatility type estimator, but using both realized asset prices and simulated asset prices. The other is a discrete sample analogue of integrated volatility using posterior samples of the latent volatility states. These two types of estimators are first constructed based on the simple log-stochastic volatility model in Chapter 2. The simple log-stochastic volatility framework is extended in Chapter 3 to incorporate correlated innovations and further extended in Chapter 4 to accommodate jumps and fat-tailed innovations. For each framework, a MCMC algorithm is designed to simulate the unobserved asset prices, model parameters and latent states. Performances of both type estimators are also examined using simulations under each framework. Applications to Chinese stock markets are also provided.