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Economics 201FS: Jump Test, Covariance on jump and non-jump intervals. Grace Shuting Wei Spring 2011 2 March 2011. Main Points. Stock Choices Goals Basic Properties of Stocks Results Extensions. Data. UPS, FDX, SPFU Nov 11 1999 – Dec 30 2010 2763 days Aligned time series
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Economics 201FS: Jump Test, Covariance on jump and non-jump intervals Grace Shuting Wei Spring 2011 2 March 2011
Main Points • Stock Choices • Goals • Basic Properties of Stocks • Results • Extensions
Data • UPS, FDX, SPFU • Nov 11 1999 – Dec 30 2010 • 2763 days • Aligned time series • Data Outliers • Measurement error: UPS • Data of erroneous day removed
Jumps • Realized TripowerQuarticity: Robust to Jumps • Statistically Significant Jumps at 0.99 level of significance (Huang and Tauchen 2005) • Correlations on intervals with/without jumps
Questions • Test statistic?? • Jump beta • Difference in correlation between periods with jumps and periods with no jumps