Quasi-likelihood analysis and its applications

The Ibragimov–Khasminskii theory established a scheme that gives asymptotic properties of the likelihood estimators through the convergence of the likelihood ratio random field. This scheme is extending to various nonlinear stochastic processes, combined with a polynomial type large deviation inequality proved for a general locally asymptotically quadratic quasi-likelihood random field. We give an overview of the quasi-likelihood analysis and its applications to ergodic/non-ergodic statistics for stochastic processes.

Portfolio Selection with Irregular Time Grids: an example using an ICA-COGARCH(1, 1) approach

In this paper we consider a portfolio selection problem defined for irregularly spaced observations. We use the Independent Component Analysis for the identification of the dependence structure and continuous-time GARCH models for the marginals. We discuss both estimation and simulation of market prices in a context where the time grid of price quotations differs across assets. We present an empirical analysis of the proposed approach using two high-frequency datasets that provides better out-of-sample results than competing portfolio strategies except for the case of severe market conditions with frequent rebalancements.

Drift estimation for a Lévy-driven Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process with heavy tails

We consider the problem of estimation of the drift parameter of an ergodic Ornstein–Uhlenbeck type process driven by a Lévy process with heavy tails. The process is observed continuously on a long time interval [0, T], $$T\rightarrow \infty $$ T → ∞ . We prove that the statistical model is locally asymptotic mixed normal and the maximum likelihood estimator is asymptotically efficient.