Multiple time scales in volatility and leverage correlations: a stochastic volatility model

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DOI10.1080/1350486042000196155zbMATH Open1093.91537arXivcond-mat/0302095OpenAlexW3121753698MaRDI QIDQ4650903FDOQ4650903


Authors: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Josep Perelló, J. Masoliver Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 February 2005

Published in: Applied Mathematical Finance (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Financial time series exhibit two different type of non linear correlations: (i) volatility autocorrelations that have a very long range memory, on the order of years, and (ii) asymmetric return-volatility (or `leverage') correlations that are much shorter ranged. Different stochastic volatility models have been proposed in the past to account for both these correlations. However, in these models, the decay of the correlations is exponential, with a single time scale for both the volatility and the leverage correlations, at variance with observations. We extend the linear Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic volatility model by assuming that the mean reverting level is itself random. We find that the resulting three-dimensional diffusion process can account for different correlation time scales. We show that the results are in good agreement with a century of the Dow Jones index daily returns (1900-2000), with the exception of crash days.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302095




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