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Nonparametric estimation of the characteristic triplet of a discretely observed Lévy process

Abstract

Given a discrete time sample X1,...XnX_1,... X_n from a L\évy process X=(Xt)t0X=(X_t)_{t\geq 0} of a finite jump activity, we study the problem of nonparametric estimation of the characteristic triplet (γ,σ2,ρ)(\gamma,\sigma^2,\rho) corresponding to the process X.X. Based on Fourier inversion and kernel smoothing, we propose estimators of γ,σ2\gamma,\sigma^2 and ρ\rho and study their asymptotic behaviour. The obtained results include derivation of upper bounds on the mean square error of the estimators of γ\gamma and σ2\sigma^2 and an upper bound on the mean integrated square error of an estimator of ρ.\rho.

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