Statistical Inference in Multifractal Random Walk Models for Financial Time Series

Par : Cristina Sattarhoff
Formats :
  • Nombre de pages102
  • ISBN978-3-631-60673-5
  • EAN9783631606735
  • Date de parution01/04/2011
  • CollectionVolkswirtschaftliche Analysen
  • ÉditeurPeter Lang

Résumé

The dynamics of financial returns varies with the return period, from high-frequency data to daily, quarterly or annual data. Multifractal Random Walk models can capture the statistical relation between returns and return periods, thus facilitating a more accurate representation of real price changes. This book provides a generalized method of moments estimation technique for the model parameters with enhanced performance in finite samples, and a novel testing procedure for multifractality.
The resource-efficient computer-based manipulation of large datasets is a typical challenge in finance. In this connection, this book also proposes a new algorithm for the computation of heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) covariance matrix estimators that can cope with large datasets.
Cristina Sattarhoff holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg. From 2005 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Statistics and Econometrics of the University of Hamburg and received her PhD in Economics.