Estimating quadratic variation consistently in the presence of endogenous and diurnal measurement error

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Journal: Journal of Econometrics
Year: 2008
Volume: 147
Issue: 1
Pages: 47-59

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We propose an econometric model that captures the effects of market microstructure on a latent price process. In particular, we allow for correlation between the measurement error and the return process and we allow the measurement error process to have a diurnal heteroskedasticity. We propose a modification of the TSRV estimator of quadratic variation. We show that this estimator is consistent, with a rate of convergence that depends on the size of the measurement error, but is no worse than n-1/6. We investigate in simulation experiments the finite sample performance of various proposed implementations.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:econom:v:147:y:2008:i:1:p:47-59
Journal Field
Econometrics
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25