Revisiting EWMA in High‐Frequency‐Based Portfolio Optimization: A Comparative Assessment
高频信息组合优化中重审 EWMA:比较评估
ABSTRACT This paper compares the statistical and economic performance of state‐of‐the‐art high‐frequency (HF) based multivariate volatility models with a simpler, widely used alternative, the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) filter. Using over two decades of 100 U.S. stock returns (2002–2023), we assess model performance through a Global Minimum Variance portfolio optimization exercise, with and without short‐selling restrictions across multiple forecast…