Asai, Manabu; Unite, Angelo - In: Applied Financial Economics 20 (2010) 13, pp. 1041-1049
We extend the range-based approach of Alizadeh et al. (2002) in order to deal with leverage and size effects and nonnormal conditional distribution in Stochastic Volatility (SV) models. We employ the Efficient Importance Sampling (EIS) method to estimate the range-based asymmetric SV models....