Kanaya, Shin; Otsu, Taisuke - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2011
financial data. We establish a large deviation principle for the realized volatility when the number of high frequency … observations in a fixed time interval increases to infinity. Our large deviation result can be used to evaluate tail probabilities … existing asymptotic theory on high frequency data. In addition, the paper contributes to the literature of large deviation …