Wednesday December 14 2011
13:00
Scuola Normale Superiore
Aula Bianchi

Emmanuel Bacry
Ecole Polytechnique

Abstract
Hawkes processes are used for modelling tick-by-tick variations of a single or of a pair of asset prices. For each asset, two counting processes (with stochastic intensities) are associated respectively to the positive and negative jumps of the price. We show that, by coupling these intensities using a kernel function, one can reproduce high-frequency mean reversion structure as well as Epps effect which are both characteristic of the microstructure. We define a numerical method that provides a non-parametric estimation of the kernel shape, it is find to be slowly decaying (power-law) suggesting a long memory nature of self-excitation phenomena at the microstructure level of price dynamics. The consequences for market impact are discussed using a model very simple model for exogeneous trades.
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