AppliedMultiple choice
The autocorrelation of absolute daily returns stays positive and decays only slowly, over months. What does this indicate?
- AThat returns themselves are predictable from past returns
- BLong memory in volatility
- CThat the data contain a coding error, since absolute returns should be independent
- DThat volatility is constant, so absolute returns are all similar
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