This article considers effective Empirical Characteristic Function (ECF) methods for estimating parameters of affine diffusions with unobserved stochastic variance and their application to some problems of continuous-time Finance. We develop a new approach utilizing the Realized Variance (RV) in...

Interaction effects capture the impact of one explanatory variable x1 on the marginal effect of another explanatory variable x2. To explore interaction effects, so-called interaction terms x1x2 are typically included in estimation specifications. While in linear models the effect of a marginal...

This paper presents an empirical comparative study of di fferent covariance estimators. The Engle-Colacito test is used for an indirect evaluation of alternative out-of-sample covariance forecasts in a portfolio setting for varying sample sizes, short selling constraints and market conditions....

In this paper, we consider the infinite-dimensional integration problem on weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with norms induced by an underlying function space decomposition of ANOVA-type. The weights model the relative importance of different groups of variables. We present new...

We define risk spillover as the dependence of a given asset variance on the past covariances and variances of other assets. Building on this idea, we propose the use of a highly flexible and tractable model to forecast the volatility of an international equity portfolio. According to the risk...

The increased availability of high-frequency data provides new tools for forecasting of variances and covariances between assets. However, recent realized (co)variance models may suffer from a 'curse of dimensionality' problem similar to that of multivariate GARCH specifications. As a result,...