A BLOCKING AND REGULARIZATION APPROACH TO HIGH-DIMENSIONAL REALIZED COVARIANCE ESTIMATION

作者:Hautsch Nikolaus*; Kyj Lada M; Oomen Roel C A
来源:Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27(4): 625-645.
DOI:10.1002/jae.1218

摘要

We introduce a blocking and regularization approach to estimate high-dimensional covariances using high-frequency data. Assets are first grouped according to liquidity. Using the multivariate realized kernel estimator of Barndorff-Nielsen et al. (2010), the covariance matrix is estimated block-wise and then regularized. The performance of the resulting blocking and regularization ('RnB') estimator is analyzed in an extensive simulation study mimicking the liquidity and market microstructure features of the S&P 1500 universe. The RnB estimator yields efficiency gains for varying liquidity settings, noise-to-signal ratios and dimensions. An empirical application of estimating daily covariances of the S&P 500 index confirms the simulation results.

  • 出版日期2012-7