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Method of Moments Estimation for Affine Stochastic Volatility Models

Statistical Finance 2024-08-20 v1 Econometrics

Abstract

We develop moment estimators for the parameters of affine stochastic volatility models. We first address the challenge of calculating moments for the models by introducing a recursive equation for deriving closed-form expressions for moments of any order. Consequently, we propose our moment estimators. We then establish a central limit theorem for our estimators and derive the explicit formulas for the asymptotic covariance matrix. Finally, we provide numerical results to validate our method.

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@article{arxiv.2408.09185,
  title  = {Method of Moments Estimation for Affine Stochastic Volatility Models},
  author = {Yan-Feng Wu and Xiangyu Yang and Jian-Qiang Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09185},
  year   = {2024}
}
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