We propose a novel specification of the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model based on an alternative normalization of the pseudo-correlation matrix called Projected DCC (Pro-DCC). Our modification consists in projecting, rather than re-scaling, the pseudo-correlation matrix onto the set...

This paper derives a finite-sample oracle inequality for a class of misspecified multivariate conditional autoregressive quantile forecasts. This inequality is used to establish that the M-estimator of a multivariate version of the conditional autoregressive Value-at-Risk model (CAViaR) achieves...

We model a large panel of time series as a VAR where the autoregressive matrices and the inverse covariance matrix of the system innovations are assumed to be sparse. The system has a network representation in terms of a directed graph representing predictive Granger relations and an undirected...

We study the cross-sectional dependence properties of a partial correlation network model with sparse power-law structure. We show that when the degree distribution of the network is power-law, the system exhibits a high degree of collinearity. More precisely, the largest eigenvalues of the...

This paper is concerned with the problem of the estimation of the integrated volatility of log-prices based on high frequency data when both price jumps and market microstructure noise are present. We begin by providing a survey of the leading estimators introduced in the literature to tackle...

Intra-daily financial durations time series typically exhibit evidence of long range dependence. This has motivated the introduction of models able to reproduce this stylized fact, like the Fractionally Integrated Autoregressive Conditional Duration Model. In this work we introduce a novel...

Financial time series analysis has focused on data related to market trading activity. Next to the modeling of the conditional variance of returns within the GARCH family of models, recent attention has been devoted to other variables: First, and foremost, volatility measured on the basis of...

The explosion of algorithmic trading has been one of the most prominent recent trends in the financial industry. Algorithmic trading consists of automated trading strategies that attempt to minimize transaction costs by optimally placing orders. The key ingredient of many of these strategies are...