Motivated by empirical evidence of long range dependence in macroeconomic variables like interest rates we propose a fractional Brownian motion driven model to describe the dynamics of the short and the default rate in a bond market. Aiming at results analogous to those for affine models we...

Generalized linear statistics are a unifying class that contains U-statistics, U-quantiles, L-statistics as well as trimmed and Winsorized U-statistics. For example, many commonly used estimators of scale fall into this class. GL-statistics have only been studied under independence; in this paper,...

Continuing the analysis initiated by Lachièze-Rey and Peccati (2013), we use contraction operators to study the normal approximation of random variables having the form of a U-statistic written on the points in the support of a random Poisson measure. Applications are provided to subgraph...

Let ηt be a Poisson point process of intensity t≥1 on some state space Y and let f be a non-negative symmetric function on Yk for some k≥1. Applying f to all k-tuples of distinct points of ηt generates a point process ξt on the positive real half-axis. The scaling limit of ξt as t tends...

We develop a martingale-based decomposition for a general class of quadratic forms of Markov chains, which resembles the well-known Hoeffding decomposition of U-statistics of i.i.d. data up to a reminder term. To illustrate the applicability of our results, we discuss how this decomposition may...