Estimating quadratic variation using realized variance
利用已实现方差估计二次变差
Abstract This paper looks at some recent work on estimating quadratic variation using realized variance (RV)—that is, sums of M squared returns. This econometrics has been motivated by the advent of the common availability of high‐frequency financial return data. When the underlying process is a semimartingale we recall the fundamental result that RV is a consistent (as M → ∞) estimator of quadratic variation (QV). We express concern that without additional assumptions it…