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...

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...

The asymptotic efficiency of indirect estimation methods, such as Indirect Inference and the Efficient Method of Moments, depends on the choice of the auxiliary model, which is some- how ad hoc and based on an educated guess. We introduce a consistent simulation based Akaike-type class of...

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...