A mathematical analysis of the Gumbel test for jumps in stochastic volatility models

This article gives an exhaustive mathematical analysis of the Gumbel test for additive jump components based on extreme value theory. The Gumbel test was first introduced by Lee and Mykland in 2008 from an economical point of view. They consider a continuous-time stochastic volatility model with a general continuous volatility process and observe it under a high-frequency sampling scheme. The test statistics based on the maximum of increments converges to the Gumbel distribution under the null hypothesis of no additive jump component and to infinity otherwise. Our article presents a moment method based technique that provides some deeper mathematical insights into the convergence and divergence case of the test statistics. In the non-jump case we are able to prove the convergence to the Gumbel distribution under greatly weak assumptions: The volatility process has to be merely pathwise Hölder continuous with an arbitrary random Hölder exponent and we have no restrictions concerning an additional drift term. Therefore, for example, we are allowing for long and short-range dependence. In the case of existing additive jumps, we give divergence results in a general semimartingale setting and investigate the speed of divergence depending on the jump activity. As a by-product of our analysis we also deduce an optimal pathwise estimator for the spot volatility process. Moreover, we provide a detailed simulation study that compares the power of the Gumbel test with the power of the jump test proposed by Barndorff–Nielsen and Shephard in 2006 for Hölder exponents close to zero. Finally, both tests are applied to a real dataset.     

基于修正的已实现阈值幂变差的股市跳跃波动行为研究

基于非参数统计方法,利用考虑金融资产价格跳跃和杠杆效应的时点波动估计方法修正已实现阈值幂变差,构造甄别跳跃的检验统计量,对金融资产价格中的随机波动、有限活跃跳跃和无限活跃跳跃等问题进行综合研究。为同时吸收波动率的异方差集聚效应和收益率的非对称效应,对原有的已实现波动率异质自回归预测模型进行拓展,将非对称的异质性自回归模型的误差项设定为GARCH模型,以考察跳跃波动序列与连续波动序列之间的复杂关系。利用沪深股指高频数据进行实证研究,包括进行跳跃识别,跳跃活动程度检验和波动率预测效果对比。研究结果表明,沪深股市同时存在布朗运动成分、有限活跃跳跃和无限活跃跳跃成分,其中连续路径方差占主体。同时,收益和波动间的杠杆效应显著,无论短期还是长期,连续波动和跳跃波动对波动率的预测均具有显著影响,同时考虑股价的跳跃、波动和杠杆效应因素有助于更准确地刻画资产价格动态过程。     

Research on the Forecasting Performance of the HAR-Type Model Based on True and False Jumps

Since the jump of an asset price has a strong effect on the estimate and forecast volatility, it has received widespread attention. Following HAR-CJ model introduced by Andersen et al, lots of works focus on this problem. In this paper, through a threshold technique, we distinguish the true and false jumps. Then we introduce two models, HAR-CTFJ model and LHAR-CTFJ model. Our result shows that the effect from the true jumps is significant while that from the false jumps is not. Moreover, the SPA test shows that our models (i.e. HAR-CTJ and LHAR-CTJ)are better than the classical HAR-CJ model in the prediction of volatility.     

基于跳跃、好坏波动率和马尔科夫状态转换的高频波动率模型预测

基于跳跃、好坏波动率的视角,采用比ABD检测更稳健的ADS检测法进行甄别跳跃,提出HAR改进模型,进一步考虑到实际波动率的非线性和高持续性动态,文章引入马尔科夫状态转换机制以构建对应的MRS-HAR族模型,推导其参数估计方法,并运用滚动时间窗预测技术和MCS检验评估预测模型结果,并采取不同的窗口期进行稳健性检验.以上海期货交易所的黄金连续(AU0)期货合约为研究对象,实证研究表明:结合马尔科夫状态转换机制,跳跃波动在上涨行情时会抑制未来波动性;结合马尔科夫状态转换机制,好坏波动率在上涨行情时正负冲击相对平衡,而在下跌行情时好(坏)波动率抑制(加剧)未来波动性;MCS检验证实,结合马尔科夫状态转换的MRS-HAR族模型相比于HAR族模型具有更优的预测精度,进一步考虑由ADS检测修正的好坏波动率和符号跳跃能够改善波动率模型的预测能力,其中基于符号跳跃和马尔科夫状态转换的MRS-HAR-RV-SJ模型展现了最高的预测精度.     

Unifying pricing formula for several stochastic volatility models with jumps

In this paper, we introduce a unifying approach to option pricing under continuous‐time stochastic volatility models with jumps. For European style options, a new semi‐closed pricing formula is derived using the generalized complex Fourier transform of the corresponding partial integro‐differential equation. This approach is successfully applied to models with different volatility diffusion and jump processes. We also discuss how to price options with different payoff functions in a similar way. In particular, we focus on a log‐normal and a log‐uniform jump diffusion stochastic volatility model, originally introduced by Bates and Yan and Hanson, respectively. The comparison of existing and newly proposed option pricing formulas with respect to time efficiency and precision is discussed. We also derive a representation of an option price under a new approximative fractional jump diffusion model that differs from the aforementioned models, especially for the out‐of‐the money contracts. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

双跳跃仿射扩散模型的几何平均型水平重置期权定价

在资产收益率及其波动率均满足随机跳跃且具有跳跃相关性的仿射扩散模型下,用广义双指数分布和伽玛分布分别刻画非对称性收益率及其波动率的跳跃波动变化,研究了具有几何平均特征的水平重置期权定价问题.通过Girsanov测度变换和多维Fourier逆变换方法,给出了此类重置期权定价的解析公式.最后,通过数值实例着重分析了联合跳跃...     

机制转换条件下股市收益率跳跃行为研究:基于RS-ARJI模型的以中国股市为例的实证分析

为检验股市收益率机制转换特性,考察机制转换条件下股市收益率的跳跃特征,以及在不同机制下跳跃行为对股市收益率的冲击效应,将Markov机制转换思想引入自回归跳跃(ARJI)模型,构建一个机制转换自回归跳跃(RS-ARM)模型.基于该模型对中国股市进行实证研究,结果表明:股市存在高、低波动两种机制,高波动时期的跳跃幅度和强度及其对股市收益率的冲击均大于低波动时期.同时,波动率估计和预测评价指标显示,RS-ARJI模型优于目前被广泛使用的GARCH模型和ARJI模型.     

Pricing VIX options with stochastic skew and asymmetric jumps

This paper performs several empirical exercises to provide evidence that the stochas-tic skew behavior and asymmetric jumps exist in VIX markets.In order to adequately capture all of the features,we develop a general valuation model and obtain quasi-analytical solutions for pricing VIX options.In addition,we make comparative studies of alternative models to illustrate the e ects after taking into account these features on the valuation of VIX options and investigate the relative value of an additional volatility factor and jump components.The empirical results indicate that the multi-factor volatility structure is vital to VIX option pricing due to providing more exibility in the modeling of VIX dynamics,and the need for asymmetric jumps cannot be eliminated by an additional volatility factor.     

Pricing VIX options in a stochastic vol‐of‐vol model

This paper proposes and makes a study of a new model for volatility index option pricing. Factors such as mean‐reversion, jumps, and stochastic volatility are taken into consideration. In particular, the positive volatility skew is addressed by the jump and the stochastic volatility of volatility. Daily calibration is used to check whether the model fits market prices and generates positive volatility skews. Overall, the results show that the mean‐reverting logarithmic jump and stochastic volatility model (called MRLRJSV in the paper) serves as the best model in all the required aspects. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

国际油价波动跳跃性特征的实证分析

根据国际油价波动中存在异常跳跃的情况,本文运用EGARCH-Jump模型对国际油价波动的跳跃性特征进行了实证分析。结果表明,加入跳跃因素的模型减缓了国际油价波动的持续性,同时杠杆效应消失,表明跳跃性因素是国际油价波动的影响因素之一,也证实了国际油价波动的跳跃性特征是国际石油市场产生杠杆效应的原因。但从长期来看,跳跃性因素对国际油价波动的扰动影响并不大,国际油价的波动仍主要受正常信息的影响。总体上,EGARCH-Jump模型比普通GARCH族模型能更好地捕捉国际油价波动的动态性特征。     

不同路径下能源价格对碳价格的传导关系研究

针对已有文献大多探讨能源价格与碳价格间的影响程度,本文从建模的角度寻找碳价格与能源价格间的联动关系。首先,使用随机微分方程刻画碳与能源的价格走势,得到碳——能源联动模型解析解。其次,在解析解的基础上,分别讨论能源价格如何通过影响碳市场价格均值、波动率路径从而影响整个碳价格。第三,分析重大能源政策产生的跳跃对碳价格的影响。结果显示,随着能源与碳市场关联程度的增加,相较于能源价格通过均值路径影响碳价格,其通过波动率路径影响碳价格的效果更为明显;且跳跃路径下的碳价格震荡小于波动率路径下能源价格传导引起的碳价格震荡。本文的结果对理清碳——能源价格联动关系具有积极意义,为投资者规避碳市场风险提供必要理论指导。     

Estimation of Tempered Stable Lévy Models of Infinite Variation

Truncated realized quadratic variations (TRQV) are among the most widely used high-frequency-based nonparametric methods to estimate the volatility of a process in the presence of jumps. Nevertheless, the truncation level is known to critically affect its performance, especially in the presence of infinite variation jumps. In this paper, we study the optimal truncation level, in the mean-square error sense, for a semiparametric tempered stable Lévy model. We obtain a novel closed-form 2nd-order approximation of the optimal threshold in a high-frequency setting. As an application, we propose a new estimation method, which combines iteratively an approximate semiparametric method of moment estimator and TRQVs with the newly found small-time approximation for the optimal threshold. The method is tested via simulations to estimate the volatility and the Blumenthal-Getoor index of a generalized CGMY model and, via a localization technique, to estimate the integrated volatility of a Heston type model with CGMY jumps. Our method is found to outperform other alternatives proposed in the literature when working with a Lévy process (i.e., the volatility is constant), or when the index of jump intensity Y is larger than 3/2 in the presence of stochastic volatility.

     

Arbitrarily large jumps of the Golovach function for trees

The ?-search problem on connected topological graphs is considered. The jumps of the Golovach function are studied for trees. As is known, the Golovach function for trees with at most 27 edges has only unit jumps. In the authors’ earlier papers, examples of trees on which the Golovach function has a jump of size 2 were constructed. In the present paper, it is shown that the jumps of the Golovach function for trees may be arbitrarily large. A sharp bound for the size of jumps is given for a sequence of trees constructed in the paper. A theorem about small perturbations of edge lengths for trees is proved, which asserts an arbitrarily small perturbation of the edge lengths of a given tree (whose Golovach function may be degenerate) may yield a new tree whose Golovach function has only unit jumps.     

Forward equations for reflected diffusions with jumps

In this paper we obtain the forward equations associated with the evolution of the density, if it exists, of reflected diffusions on the positive orthant with jumps which form a marked point process whose random jump measure possesses a stochastic intensity. These results generalize the so-called generalized Dynkin equations for piecewise deterministic jump processes due to Davis. We then consider the stationary case where the existence of a stochastic intensity is not needed. The techniques are based on local times and the use of random jump measures. We discuss the application of these results to problems arising in queuing and storage processes as well as stationary distributions of diffusions with delayed and jump reflections at the origin.This research was supported in part by the Quebec-France Cooperative Research Program and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under Grant OGP 0042024.     

Basket options valuation for a local volatility jump–diffusion model with the asymptotic expansion method

In this paper we discuss the basket options valuation for a jump–diffusion model. The underlying asset prices follow some correlated local volatility diffusion processes with systematic jumps. We derive a forward partial integral differential equation (PIDE) for general stochastic processes and use the asymptotic expansion method to approximate the conditional expectation of the stochastic variance associated with the basket value process. The numerical tests show that the suggested method is fast and accurate in comparison with the Monte Carlo and other methods in most cases.     

Mean first passage times of two-dimensional processes with jumps

In this paper, we incorporate a jump component into the model based on a two-dimensional degenerate diffusion process for the remaining lifetime of machines in the recent paper [Lefebvre, M., 2010. Mean first-passage time to zero for wear processes. Stochastic Models 26, 46-53] by the second author. We calculate explicitly the expected value of first passage times associated to the two-dimensional process when the jump component is taken to be a compound Poisson process with exponential jumps and random proportion of jumps.     

Stochastic differential equations with diffusion and jumps modeling currency markets

An efficient currency market with zero transaction costs is considered. The dynamics of the exchange rate in this market is described by stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with diffusion and jumps; the latter are assumed to be described by a Lévy process. Adjusting theoretical arbitrage-free option prices computed within these models to market option prices requires properly choosing the coefficients in the SDEs. For this purpose, an expression for local volatility in a diffusion model is found and a relation between local and implied volatilities is determined. For a market model with diffusion and jumps, expressions for the local volatility and the local rate function are given. Moreover, in Merton’s model, where the jump component is a compound Poisson process with normal jumps, a relation between the local and the implied volatilities is determined.     

Decomposition of default probability under a structural credit risk model with jumps?

In this paper, we consider the default probabilities caused by a jump or by oscillation under a structural credit risk model with jumps. We study the Laplace transforms of the times of default caused by a jump and by oscillation. We derive integro-differential equations and obtain some closed-form expressions for them. By inverting them, we numerically investigate the contributions of the jump component and the diffusion component to the default under a certain choice of the jump size distribution.     

ENO Reconstruction and ENO Interpolation Are Stable

We prove that the ENO reconstruction and ENO interpolation procedures are stable in the sense that the jump of the reconstructed ENO point values at each cell interface has the same sign as the jump of the underlying cell averages across that interface. Moreover, we prove that the size of these jumps after reconstruction relative to the jump of the underlying cell averages is bounded. Similar sign properties and the boundedness of the jumps hold for the ENO interpolation procedure. These estimates, which are shown to hold for ENO reconstruction and interpolation of arbitrary order of accuracy and on nonuniform meshes, indicate a remarkable rigidity of the piecewise polynomial ENO procedure.     

Performance comparison of several priority schemes with priority jumps

In this paper, we consider several discrete-time priority queues with priority jumps. In a priority scheduling scheme with priority jumps, real-time and non-real-time packets arrive in separate queues, i.e., the high- and low-priority queue respectively. In order to deal with possibly excessive delays however, non-real-time packets in the low-priority queue can in the course of time jump to the high-priority queue. These packets are then treated in the high-priority queue as if they were real-time packets. Many criteria can be used to decide when packets of the low-priority queue jump to the high-priority queue. Some criteria have already been introduced in the literature, and we first overview this literature. Secondly, we propose and analyse a new priority scheme with priority jumps. Finally, we extensively compare all cited schemes. The schemes all differ in their jumping mechanism, based on a certain jumping criterion, and thus all have a different performance. We show the pros and cons of each jumping scheme.