A two-step estimation method of stochastic volatility models is proposed. In the first step, we nonparametrically … estimate the (unobserved) instantaneous volatility process. In the second step, standard estimation methods for fully observed … diffusion processes are employed, but with the filtered/estimated volatility process replacing the latent process. Our …

We investigate a model in which we connect slowly time varying unconditional long-run volatility with short …-run conditional volatility whose representation is given as a semi-strong GARCH (1,1) process with heavy tailed errors. We focus on … robust estimation of both long-run and short-run volatilities. Our estimation is semiparametric since the long-run volatility …

Many modern estimation methods in econometrics approximate an objective function, for instance, through simulation or … simulation-based procedures. We also propose another approach to reduce the impact of approximations, based on a Newton …-Raphson adjustment. A Monte Carlo simulation on the mixed logit model shows that our proposed adjustments can yield spectacular …