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Adaptive robust large volatility matrix estimation based on high-frequency financial data

JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS2023-11

Shin, Minseok | Kim, Donggyu | Fan, Jianqing

Several novel statistical methods have been developed to estimate large integrated volatility matrices based on high-frequency financial data. To investigate their asymptotic behaviors, they require a sub-Gaussian or finite high-order moment assumption for observed log-returns, which cannot account for the heavy-tail phenomenon of stock -returns. Recently, a robust estimator was developed to handle heavy-tailed distributions with some bounded fourth-moment assumption. However, we often observe that log -returns have heavier tail distribution than the finite fourth-moment and that the degrees of heaviness of tails are heterogeneous across asset and over time. In this paper, to deal with the heterogeneous heavy-tailed distributions, we develop an adaptive robust integrated volatility estimator that employs pre-averaging and truncation schemes based on jump-diffusion processes. We call this an adaptive robust pre-averaging realized volatility (ARP) estimator. We show that the ARP estimator has a sub-Weibull tail concentration with only finite 2 alpha-th moments for any alpha > 1. In addition, we establish matching upper and lower bounds to show that the ARP estimation procedure is optimal. To estimate large integrated volatility matrices using the approximate factor model, the ARP estimator is further regularized using the principal orthogonal complement thresholding (POET) method. The numerical study is conducted to check the finite sample performance of the ARP estimator.

Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
Issue Date
2023-11
Article Type
Article
Citation
JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS, Vol.237, No.1
ISSN
0304-4076
DOI
10.1016/j.jeconom.2023.105514
Contact : Joo, Sunhee ( shjoo2006@kaist.ac.kr )

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