Pitfalls in Estimating Jump-Diffusion Models
Preprint
- 1 January 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In this paper we show that it is invalid to use standard maximum likelihood procedures in estimating jump-diffusion models. The reason is that in jump-diffusionKeywords
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