Economics 201FS: Jump Test, Covariance on jump and non-jump intervals Grace Shuting Wei Spring 2011 2 March 2011
Main Points Stock Choices Goals Basic Properties of Stocks Results Extensions
Data UPS, FDX, SPFU Nov 11 1999 – Dec 30 2010 2763 days Aligned time series Data Outliers Measurement error: UPS Data of erroneous day removed Motivation for stock choice
FDX: Price & Returns Dec 2005: Legal dispute over classified drivers
FDX: Realized, Bipower Volatility
UPS: Price & Returns
UPS: Realized, Bipower Volatility
SPFU: Price & Returns
SPFU: Realized, Bipower Volatility
Jumps Realized Tripower Quarticity: Robust to Jumps Statistically Significant Jumps at 0.99 level of significance (Huang and Tauchen 2005) Correlations on intervals with/without jumps
FDX: Realized Tripower Quarticity Interesting points: two segments; correlation correlated with vol (higher during the crash, but lower during recovery)
UPS: Realized Tripower Quarticity
SPFU: Realized Tripower Quarticity
FDX: Realized Tripower Quarticity Interesting points: two segments; correlation correlated with vol (higher during the crash, but lower during recovery)
UPS: Realized Tripower Quarticity
SPFU: Realized Tripower Quarticity
Questions Test statistic?? Jump beta Difference in correlation between periods with jumps and periods with no jumps