Measuring and forecasting volatility of asset returns is very important for asset trading and risk management. There are various forms of volatility estimates, including implied volatility, realized volatility and volatility assumed under stochastic volatility models and GARCH models. Research has shown that these different methods are closely related but have different perspectives, strengths ...

The notion of realized volatility as a model-free measurement of the quadratic variation of the underlying log price process loses its asymptotic validity in the presence of market microstructure noise. Should microstructure contaminations be present, the summing of an increasing number of squared return data (as in the definition of the realized volatility estimator) simply entails increasing ...