Abstract:
The problem to evaluate integrated volatility on the basis of the observable realization of the
stochastic process corresponding to geometrical Brownian motion is considered. In one line with
theoretical interest the urgency of the problem inquest is stipulated also by the fact that
calculation of integrated volatility for different financial assets is the inseparable part of financial
engineering topics. In the present paper the new approach to tackle the problem of integrated
volatility evaluation is proposed. The integral equation to provide the calculation of integrated
volatility is derived. The solving of this integral equation turns out to be a standard ill-posed
problem of mathematical physics. The main idea of the original problem reduction to the ill-
posed problem is to make its solution robust towards the presence of anomalous statistical data,
for instance, generated by the market microstructure effect such as the bid-ask spread existence.