TESTING FOR EMBEDDABILITY BY STATIONARY REVERSIBLE CONTINUOUS-TIME MARKOV PROCESSES

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Journal: Econometric Theory
Year: 1998
Volume: 14
Issue: 6
Pages: 744-769

Authors (3)

Florens, Jean-Pierre (not in RePEc) Renault, Eric Touzi, Nizar (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Given an observation of a discrete-time process {Yi,i = 0...n} assumed to be Markov, stationary, and time reversible, we develop a (conservative) test procedure of embeddability by a continuous-time reversible Markov process. The test statistic is derived from a set of moment inequality restrictions implied by the spectral properties of such continuous-time processes. Most interesting is that the embeddability condition of interest is a direct extension of the well-known embeddability problem by a two-state Markov chain. Empirical experiments show that the embeddability hypothesis is rejected more frequently for exchange rate daily data than for stock indices data.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:cup:etheor:v:14:y:1998:i:06:p:744-769_14
Journal Field
Econometrics
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-29