A Discrete-State Continuous-Time Model of Financial Transactions Prices and Times
金融交易价格与交易时间的离散状态连续时间模型
Financial transaction prices typically lie on a discrete grid of values and arrive at random times. This paper proposes an econometric model with this structure. The distribution of each price change is a multinomial, conditional on past information and the time interval between the transactions. The proposed autoregressive conditional multinomial (ACM) model is not restricted to be Markov or symmetric in response to shocks; however, such restrictions can be imposed. The…