Grace Shuting Wei Spring 2011 Economics 201FS: Realized Volatility, Bipower Variance, Alternative Volatility Measures Grace Shuting Wei Spring 2011
Main Points Price Series Geometrics Returns Realized Variance Bipower Variance Relative Contribution of jumps Volatility Signature Plot
Data GOOG (Google) Aug 20 2004 – Dec 31 2010 WMT (Wal-Mart) Jan 2 2008 – Dec 31 2010
GOOG: Price Series
GOOG: Geometric Returns Feb 28 2006: Google fell from 393.2 at 10.28am – 339.56 at 10.36am, rebounding to 351.53 at 10.40am Early March 2006: Legal battle March 31 2006: Added to S&P500 Financial crisis May 2010: Flash crash
WMT: Price Series
WMT: Geometric Returns
GOOG: Realized Variance
GOOG: Bipower Variation
GOOG: Relative Contribution of Jumps
WMT: Realized Variance
WMT: Bipower Variation
WMT: Relative Contribution of Jumps
GOOG: Volatility Signature Plot (RV)
GOOG: Volatility Signature Plot (BV)
WMT: Volatility Signature Plot (RV)
WMT: Volatility Signature Plot (BV)
Other Volatility Measures
Alternative Measures Sub-Sampling (Zhang, AïtSahalia and Mykland, 2005) Pre-Averaging (Podolskij and Vetter, 2009) MedVar (Anderson, Dobrev and Schaumburg, 2010) MinVar (Anderson, Dobrev and Schaumburg, 2010) Threshold Variation (Mancini, 2009)