Adaptive Test for Jump

Abstract: We develop an adaptive jump test for discretely observed high-frequency semimartingales by combining the A"it-Sahalia--Jacod ratio statistic (A"it-Sahalia and Jacod, 2009) and the Lee--Mykland extreme-return statistic (Lee and Mykland, 2008) with the Cauchy combination rule. Allowing stochastic It^o drift, volatility, and leverage, we show asymptotic independence under the continuous-path null and dense local alternatives, yielding an analytically calibrated test with closed-form power; under finite-activity jumps, the test is consistent. We also extend the method to additive microstructure noise. Simulations show that the combined procedure performs well under both dense and sparse alternatives and is typically best overall.