Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43192 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2008/32
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We argue for incorporating the financial economics of market microstructure into the financial econometrics of asset return volatility estimation. In particular, we use market microstructure theory to derive the cross-correlation function between latent returns and market microstructure noise, which feature prominently in the recent volatility literature. The cross-correlation at zero displacement is typically negative, and cross-correlations at nonzero displacements are positive and decay geometrically. If market makers are sufficiently risk averse, however, the cross-correlation pattern is inverted. Our results are useful for assessing the validity of the frequently-assumed independence of latent price and microstructure noise, for explaining observed cross-correlation patterns, for predicting as-yet undiscovered patterns, and for making informed conjectures as to improved volatility estimation methods.
Subjects: 
Realized Volatility
Market Microstructure Theory
High-Frequency Data
Financial econometrics
JEL: 
G14
G20
D82
D83
C51
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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