Realized volatility and stylized facts of Chinese Treasury bond market

摘要

Based on high frequency data,this paper studies on the volatility stylized facts of Chinese Treasury bond market (CTBM) in detail, including the best sampling frequency selected to compute the realized volatility, the conditional and unconditional distribution of the returns, the long memory property, the intraday,inter-day pattern of the returns and volatility,and so on. The main conclusions about CTBM volatility are provided. 15 minute is best sampling frequency. The RV-based conditional distribution of return is nearly normal. Both return and volatility have significant inter-day but insignificant intraday periodicity.