PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR A DISCRETELY OBSERVED STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODEL WITH JUMPS IN THE VOLATILITY

Abstract

In this paper a stochastic volatility model is considered. That is, a log price process Y which is given in terms of a volatility process V is studied. The latter is defined such that the log price possesses some of the properties empirically observed by Barndorff-Nielsen & Jiang[6]. In the model there are two sets of unknown parameters, one set corresponding to the marginal distribution of V and one to autocorrelation of V. Based on discrete time observations of the log price the authors discuss how to estimate the parameters appearing in the marginal distribution and find the asymptotic properties.