Volatility Comovement: A Multifrequency Approach

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Laurent E. Calvet

SKEMA Business School; CEPR

Adlai J. Fisher

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

Samuel Brodsky Thompson

Arrowstreet Capital, L.P.

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Date Written: August 2004

Abstract

We implement a multifrequency volatility decomposition of three exchange rates and show that components with similar durations are strongly correlated across series. This motivates a bivariate extension of the Markov-Switching Multifractal (MSM) introduced in Calvet and Fisher (2001, 2004). Bivariate MSM is a stochastic volatility model with a closed-form likelihood. Estimation can proceed by ML for state spaces of moderate size, and by simulated likelihood via a particle filter in high-dimensional cases. We estimate the model and confirm its main assumptions in likelihood ratio tests. Bivariate MSM compares favorably to a standard multivariate GARCH both in- and out-of-sample. We extend the model to multivariate settings with a potentially large number of assets by proposing a parsimonious multifrequency factor structure.

Suggested Citation

Calvet, Laurent E. and Fisher, Adlai J. and Thompson, Samuel Brodsky, Volatility Comovement: A Multifrequency Approach (August 2004). NBER Working Paper No. t0300, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=583421

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