This paper introduces a no-arbitrage framework to assess how macroeconomic factors help explain the risk-premium agents require to bear the risk of fluctuations in stock market volatil- ity. We develop a model in which return volatility and volatility risk-premia are stochastic and derive...

The aggregation procedure when a sample of length N is divided into blocks of length m = o(N), m ® ¥ and observations in each block are replaced by their sample mean, is widely used in statistical inference. Taqqu, Teverovsky and Willinger (1995), Teverovsky and Taqqu (1997) introduced an...

For a particular conditionally heteroscedastic nonlinear (ARCH) process for which the conditional variance of the observable sequence rt is the square of an inhomogeneous linear combination of rs, s < t, we give conditions under which, for integers 1 > 2, r' has long memory autocorrelation and normalized partial sums of ri converge to fractional...</t,>

For linear processes, semiparametric estimation of the memory parameter, based on the log-periodogram and local Whittle estimators, has been exhaustively examined and their properties are well established. However, except for some specific cases, little is known about the estimation of the...

We consider a parametric spectral density with power-law behaviour about a fractional pole at the unknown frequency !. The case of known !, especially ! = 0, is standard in the long memory literature. When ! is unknown, asymptotic distribution theory for estimates of parameters, including the...

The semiparametric local Whittle or Gaussian estimate of the long memory parameter is known to have especially nice limiting distributional properties, being asymptotically normal with a limiting variance that is completely known. However in moderate samples the normal approximation may not be...