We develop a simple robust test for the presence of continuous and discontinuous (jump) components in the price of an asset underlying an option. Our test examines the prices of at-the-money and out-of-the-money options as the option maturity approaches zero. We show that these prices converge...

Abstract We consider a sequential testing problem of three hypotheses that the unknown drift of a Brownian motion takes one of three values. We show that this problem can be solved by a reduction to an optimal stopping problem for local times of the observable process. For the case of...

We provide a point estimate for integrals on R, based on the standard Brownian motion. We prove the consistency of the estimator and limit theorems for the fluctuations. The proof relies on computing the distribution of the local time of a Brownian motion at a specific stopping time.

We compute a closed-form expression for the moment generating function fˆ(x;λ,α)=1λEx(eαLτ), where Lt is the local time at zero for standard Brownian motion with reflecting barriers at 0 and b, and τ∼Exp(λ) is independent of W. By analyzing how and where fˆ(x;⋅,α) blows up in λ, a...

We examine symmetric extensions of symmetric Markov processes with one boundary point. Relationship among various normalizations of local times, entrance laws and excursion laws is studied. Dirichlet form characterization of elastic one-point reflection of symmetric Markov processes is derived....

This paper is concerned with nonparametric statistics for the stress release process. We propose the local time estimator (LTE) for the stationary density and show that it is unbiased and uniformly consistent. The LTE is used in constructing an estimator for the intensity function. A goodness of...

We prove a central limit theorem for functionals of two independent d-dimensional fractional Brownian motions with the same Hurst index H in (2d+2,2d) using the method of moments.

Linear cointegration is known to have the important property of invariance under temporal translation. The same property is shown not to apply for nonlinear cointegration. The limit properties of the Nadaraya–Watson (NW) estimator for cointegrating regression under misspecified lag structure...