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<pre style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistica, Università di Siena</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></i></pre>

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seminario dal titolo:</span></p>

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<pre style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:22pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">“</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Multi-jumps</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:22pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">”</span></i></b></pre><pre style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></b></pre>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Abstract:</span></i></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The simultaneous occurrence of jumps in
several stocks (multi-jumps) can be associated to major nancial news, is
correlated with sudden spikes of the variance risk premium, and determines
an increase in the stock variances and correlations which signicantly deteriorates
the diversication potential of asset allocation. The latter evidence
implies a reduction in the demand of stocks by an aware risk-averse
investor. These facts can be easily overlooked by the usage of standard
univariate jump statistics, which just lack sucient power. They are instead
revealed in a clearly cut way by using a novel test based on smoothed
estimators of the integrated variance ofindividual stocks.</font></span></i></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joint work with Massimiliano Caporin and Aleksey
Kolokolov.</b></font></span></p>

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<p class=""><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Classe di Scienze
Matematiche e Naturali</span></p>

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