Precise large deviations for dependent regularly varying sequences

We study a precise large deviation principle for a stationary regularly varying sequence of random variables. This principle extends the classical results of A.V. Nagaev (1969) and S.V. Nagaev (1979) for iid regularly varying sequences. The proof uses an idea of Jakubowski (1993,1997) in the context of centra limit theorems with infinite variance stable limits. We illustrate the principle for \sv\ models, functions of a Markov chain satisfying a polynomial drift condition and solutions of linear and non-linear stochastic recurrence equations

The cluster index of regularly varying sequences with applications to limit theory for functions of multivariate Markov chains

We introduce the cluster index of a multivariate regularly varying stationary sequence and characterize the index in terms of the spectral tail process. This index plays a major role in limit theory for partial sums of regularly varying sequences. We illustrate the use of the cluster index by characterizing infinite variance stable limit distributions and precise large deviation results for sums of multivariate functions acting on a stationary Markov chain under a drift condition

The limit distribution of the maximum increment of a random walk with regularly varying jump size distribution

In this paper, we deal with the asymptotic distribution of the maximum increment of a random walk with a regularly varying jump size distribution. This problem is motivated by a long-standing problem on change point detection for epidemic alternatives. It turns out that the limit distribution of the maximum increment of the random walk is one of the classical extreme value distributions, the Fr\'{e}chet distribution. We prove the results in the general framework of point processes and for jump sizes taking values in a separable Banach space.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ255 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm

Stochastic volatility models with possible extremal clustering

In this paper we consider a heavy-tailed stochastic volatility model, $X_t=\sigma_tZ_t$, $t\in\mathbb{Z}$, where the volatility sequence $(\sigma_t)$ and the i.i.d. noise sequence $(Z_t)$ are assumed independent, $(\sigma_t)$ is regularly varying with index $\alpha>0$, and the $Z_t$'s have moments of order larger than $\alpha$. In the literature (see Ann. Appl. Probab. 8 (1998) 664-675, J. Appl. Probab. 38A (2001) 93-104, In Handbook of Financial Time Series (2009) 355-364 Springer), it is typically assumed that $(\log\sigma_t)$ is a Gaussian stationary sequence and the $Z_t$'s are regularly varying with some index $\alpha$ (i.e., $(\sigma_t)$ has lighter tails than the $Z_t$'s), or that $(Z_t)$ is i.i.d. centered Gaussian. In these cases, we see that the sequence $(X_t)$ does not exhibit extremal clustering. In contrast to this situation, under the conditions of this paper, both situations are possible; $(X_t)$ may or may not have extremal clustering, depending on the clustering behavior of the $\sigma$-sequence.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ426 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm

The integrated periodogram of a dependent extremal event sequence

We investigate the asymptotic properties of the integrated periodogram calculated from a sequence of indicator functions of dependent extremal events. An event in Euclidean space is extreme if it occurs far away from the origin. We use a regular variation condition on the underlying stationary sequence to make these notions precise. Our main result is a functional central limit theorem for the integrated periodogram of the indicator functions of dependent extremal events. The limiting process is a continuous Gaussian process whose covari- ance structure is in general unfamiliar, but in the iid case a Brownian bridge appears. In the general case, we propose a stationary bootstrap procedure for approximating the distribution of the limiting process. The developed theory can be used to construct classical goodness-of-fit tests such as the Grenander- Rosenblatt and Cram\'{e}r-von Mises tests which are based only on the extremes in the sample. We apply the test statistics to simulated and real-life data

Homogeneous mappings of regularly varying vectors

It is well known that the product of two independent regularly varying random variables with the same tail index is again regularly varying with this index. In this paper, we provide sharp sufficient conditions for the regular variation property of product-type functions of regularly varying random vectors, generalizing and extending the univariate theory in various directions. The main result is then applied to characterize the regular variation property of products of iid regularly varying quadratic random matrices and of solutions to affine stochastic recurrence equations under non-standard conditions

The extremogram: A correlogram for extreme events

We consider a strictly stationary sequence of random vectors whose finite-dimensional distributions are jointly regularly varying with some positive index. This class of processes includes, among others, ARMA processes with regularly varying noise, GARCH processes with normally or Student-distributed noise and stochastic volatility models with regularly varying multiplicative noise. We define an analog of the autocorrelation function, the extremogram, which depends only on the extreme values in the sequence. We also propose a natural estimator for the extremogram and study its asymptotic properties under $\alpha$-mixing. We show asymptotic normality, calculate the extremogram for various examples and consider spectral analysis related to the extremogram.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/09-BEJ213 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm