Asset transaction prices sampled at high frequency are much staler than one might expect in the sense that they frequently lack new updates showing zero returns. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework for formalizing this phenomenon. It hinges on the existence of a latent...

Realized multipower variation, originally introduced to eliminate jumps, can be extremely useful for inference in pure-jump models. The paper shows how to build a simple and precise estimator of the jump activity index of a semimartingale observed at a high frequency by comparing different...

This study reconsiders the role of jumps for volatility forecasting by showing that jumps have a positive and mostly significant impact on future volatility. This result becomes apparent once volatility is correctly separated into its continuous and discontinuous component. To this purpose, we...