Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

8-2014

Abstract

Whether or not there is a unit root persistence in volatility of financial assets has been a long-standing topic of interest to financial econometricians and empirical economists. The purpose of this article is to provide a Bayesian approach for testing the volatility persistence in the context of stochastic volatility with Merton jump and correlated Merton jump. The Shanghai Composite Index daily return data is used for empirical illustration. The result of Bayesian hypothesis testing strongly indicates that the volatility process doesn’t have unit root volatility persistence in this stock market.

Keywords

Bayesian analysis, Calibration of stochastic volatility, Bayesian statistics, Financial time series, Financial econometrics, Volatility modelling

Discipline

Finance

Publication

Quantitative Finance

Volume

14

Issue

8

First Page

1415

Last Page

1426

ISSN

1469-7688

Identifier

10.1080/14697688.2014.880124

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2014.880124

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