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Torben G. Andersen is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on several specialized subfields and topics.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence

The core topics addressed in their work are:

  • Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
  • Stochastic processes and financial applications
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Image and Signal Denoising Methods

Torben G. Andersen has published extensively across prominent academic venues. Their most frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • Quantitative Economics
  • Econometric Theory
  • Journal of Time Series Analysis

Selected recent papers by Andersen demonstrate a focus on financial volatility, risk modeling, and market dynamics:

  • "Tail risk and return predictability for the Japanese equity market" (2020), Journal of Econometrics
  • "Volatility measurement with pockets of extreme return persistence" (2021), Journal of Econometrics
  • "Recalcitrant betas: Intraday variation in the cross-sectional dispersion of systematic risk" (2021), Quantitative Economics
  • "A Descriptive Study of High-Frequency Trade and Quote Option Data" (2020), Journal of Financial Econometrics
  • "Intraday Periodic Volatility Curves" (2023), Journal of the American Statistical Association

Collaborative work features frequent co-authorship with a number of researchers, including:

  • Viktor Todorov
  • Rasmus T. Varneskov
  • Zhiyuan Zhang
  • Yingwen Tan
  • Bo Zhou

These collaborations span multiple research projects, strengthening their contribution to topics related to volatility and financial econometrics.

Best Publications

  • MODELING AND FORECASTING REALIZED VOLATILITY

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Paul Labys

  • ANSWERING THE SKEPTICS: YES, STANDARD VOLATILITY MODELS DO PROVIDE ACCURATE FORECASTS*

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev

  • The Distribution of Realized Exchange Rate Volatility

    Torben G Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X Diebold;Paul Labys

  • The distribution of realized stock return volatility

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Heiko Ebens

  • Roughing it Up: Including Jump Components in the Measurement, Modeling and Forecasting of Return Volatility

    Torben Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis Diebold

  • Roughing It Up: Including Jump Components in the Measurement, Modeling, and Forecasting of Return Volatility

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold

  • Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange *

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Clara Vega

  • Intraday periodicity and volatility persistence in financial markets

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev

  • Return Volatility and Trading Volume: An Information Flow Interpretation of Stochastic Volatility

    Torben G. Andersen

  • Deutsche Mark–Dollar Volatility: Intraday Activity Patterns, Macroeconomic Announcements, and Longer Run Dependencies

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev

  • Real-Time Price Discovery in Global Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Clara Vega

  • An empirical investigation of continuous-time equity return models

    Torben G. Andersen;Luca Benzoni;Jesper Lund

  • Parametric and Nonparametric Volatility Measurement

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold

  • Heterogeneous Information Arrivals and Return Volatility Dynamics: Uncovering the Long-Run in High Frequency Returns

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev

  • The Distribution of Exchange Rate Volatility

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Paul Labys

  • Estimating continuous-time stochastic volatility models of the short-term interest rate

    Torben G. Andersen;Jesper Lund

  • Jump-Robust Volatility Estimation using Nearest Neighbor Truncation

    Torben G. Andersen;Dobrislav Dobrev;Ernst Schaumburg

  • The Distribution of Exchange Rate Volatility

    Torben G. Andersen;Torben G. Andersen;Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Francis X. Diebold;Paul Labys

  • GMM Estimation of a Stochastic Volatility Model: A Monte Carlo Study

    Torben G. Andersen;Bent E. Sørensen

  • Exchange Rate Returns Standardized by Realized Volatility are (Nearly) Gaussian

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Paul Labys

  • Modeling and Forecasting Realized Volatility

    Torben G. Andersen;Torben G. Andersen;Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Francis X. Diebold;Paul Labys

  • Volatility and Correlation Forecasting

    Torben Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Peter Christoffersen;Francis Diebold

  • Parametric and Nonparametric Volatility Measurement

    Torben G. Andersen;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold

  • Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange

    Torben G. Andersen;Torben G. Andersen;Torben G. Andersen;Clara Vega;Tim Bollerslev;Tim Bollerslev;Francis X. Diebold;Francis X. Diebold

  • THE ECONOMETRICS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS: John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, and A. Craig MacKinlay, Princeton University Press, 1997

    Torben G. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Bollerslev
Tim Bollerslev Duke University
Francis X. Diebold
Francis X. Diebold University of Pennsylvania
Peter Christoffersen
Peter Christoffersen University of Toronto
Bent E. Sørensen
Bent E. Sørensen University of Houston
Nikolaus Hautsch
Nikolaus Hautsch University of Vienna
George Tauchen
George Tauchen Duke University
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Joydeep Bhattacharya Goldsmiths University of London
Neil Shephard
Neil Shephard Harvard University
Serena Ng
Serena Ng Columbia University
Arthur Lewbel
Arthur Lewbel Boston College

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