Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87261 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 13-025/III
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
There has recently been growing interest in modeling and estimating alternative continuous time multivariate stochastic volatility models. We propose a continuous timefractionally integrated Wishart stochastic volatility (FIWSV) process. We derive the conditional Laplace transform of the FIWSV model in order to obtain a closed form expression of moments. We conduct a two-step procedure, namely estimating the parameter of fractional integration via log-periodgram regression in the first step, and estimating the remaining parameters via the generalized method of moments in the second step. Monte Carlo results for the procedure shows reasonable performances in finite samples. The empirical results for the bivariate data of the S&P 500 and FTSE100 indexes show that the data favor the new FIWSV processes rather than one-factor and two-factor models of Wishart autoregressive processes for the covariance structure.
Subjects: 
Diffusion process
Multivariate stochastic volatility
Long memory
Fractional Brownian motion
Generalized method of moments
JEL: 
C32
C51
G13
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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