Wednesday February 15 2012
13:00
Scuola Normale Superiore
Aula Bianchi

Roberto Renò
Università degli Studi di Siena

Abstract
A sizeable proportion of large, discontinuous, changes in asset prices are found to be associated with contemporaneous large, discontinuous, changes in volatility (i.e., co-jumps), negative price jumps usually occurring along with positive volatility jumps. We document that the co-jumps yield an economically-meaningful portion of leverage, return skewness, and the implied volatility smirk. These, and other, effects are uncovered in the context of a flexible modeling approach (allowing, among other features, for independent as well as common jumps, volatility-dependent jump arrivals, and time-varying leverage) and a novel identification strategy relying on infinitesimal cross-moments and high-frequency price data.
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