Estimating the quadratic covariation matrix from noisy observations: Local method of moments and efficiency
含噪观测下二次协变差矩阵的估计:局部矩方法与效率
An efficient estimator is constructed for the quadratic covariation or integrated co-volatility matrix of a multivariate continuous martingale based on noisy and nonsynchronous observations under high-frequency asymptotics. Our approach relies on an asymptotically equivalent continuous-time observation model where a local generalised method of moments in the spectral domain turns out to be optimal. Asymptotic semi-parametric efficiency is established in the Cramér–Rao sense.…