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用于识别服从者与推广因果效应的锐度工具变量AI 解读

It is well known that, without restricting treatment effect heterogeneity, instrumental variable (IV) methods only identify “local” effects among compliers, that is, those subjects who take treatment only when encouraged by the IV. Local effects are controversial since they seem to only apply to an unidentified subgroup; this has led many to denounce these effects as having little policy relevance. However, we show that such pessimism is not always warranted: it can be…

非经典 Berry–Esseen 不等式与 Bootstrap 精度AI 解读

We study accuracy of bootstrap procedures for estimation of quantiles of a smooth function of a sum of independent sub-Gaussian random vectors. We establish higher-order approximation bounds with error terms depending on a sample size and a dimension explicitly. These results lead to improvements of accuracy of a weighted bootstrap procedure for general log-likelihood ratio statistics. The key element of our proofs of the bootstrap accuracy is a multivariate higher-order…

通信约束下的自适应分布式方法AI 解读

We study estimation methods under communication constraints in a distributed version of the nonparametric random design regression model. We derive minimax lower bounds and exhibit methods that attain those bounds. Moreover, we show that adaptive estimation is possible in this setting.

筛先验下贝叶斯可信集的渐近频率学覆盖性质AI 解读

We investigate the frequentist coverage properties of (certain) Bayesian credible sets in a general, adaptive, nonparametric framework. It is well known that the construction of adaptive and honest confidence sets is not possible in general. To overcome this problem (in context of sieve type of priors), we introduce an extra assumption on the functional parameters, the so-called “general polished tail” condition. We then show that under standard assumptions, both the…

使用 ReLU 深度神经网络的非参数回归AI 解读

Consider the multivariate nonparametric regression model. It is shown that estimators based on sparsely connected deep neural networks with ReLU activation function and properly chosen network architecture achieve the minimax rates of convergence (up to $\log n$-factors) under a general composition assumption on the regression function. The framework includes many well-studied structural constraints such as (generalized) additive models. While there is a lot of flexibility…

通过去噪矩方法最优估计高斯混合分布AI 解读

The method of moments (Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 185 (1894) 71–110) is one of the most widely used methods in statistics for parameter estimation, by means of solving the system of equations that match the population and estimated moments. However, in practice and especially for the important case of mixture models, one frequently needs to contend with the difficulties of non-existence or nonuniqueness of statistically meaningful solutions, as well as the high…

用于稳健高效风险评估的部分删失后验AI 解读

A novel approach to inference for a specific region of the predictive distribution is introduced. An important domain of application is accurate prediction of financial risk measures, where the area of interest is the left tail of the predictive density of logreturns. Our proposed approach originates from the Bayesian approach to parameter estimation and time series forecasting, however it is robust in the sense that it provides a more accurate estimation of the predictive…

漂移—扩散过程的波动率估计与跳跃检测AI 解读

The logarithmic prices of financial assets are conventionally assumed to follow a drift–diffusion process. While the drift term is typically ignored in the infill asymptotic theory and applications, the presence of temporary nonzero drifts is an undeniable fact. The finite sample theory for integrated variance estimators and extensive simulations provided in this paper reveal that the drift component has a nonnegligible impact on the estimation accuracy of volatility, which…

重新审视杠杆效应之谜：离散时间中的识别AI 解读

The term “leverage effect,” as coined by Black (1976), refers to the tendency of an asset’s volatility to be negatively correlated with the asset’s return. Aït-Sahalia et al. (2013) refer to the “leverage effect puzzle” as the fact that, in spite of a broad agreement that the effect should be present, it is hard to identify empirically. For this purpose, we propose an extension with leverage effect of the discrete time stochastic volatility model of Darolles et al. (2006).…

多元杠杆效应与已实现半协方差 GARCH 模型AI 解读

We propose new asymmetric multivariate volatility models. The models exploit estimates of variances and covariances based on the signs of high-frequency returns, measures known as realized semivariances, semicovariances, and semicorrelations, to allow for more nuanced responses to positive and negative return shocks than threshold “leverage effect” terms traditionally used in the literature. Our empirical implementations of the new models, including extensions of widely-used…

未观测因子下的最近共矩估计AI 解读

We propose a minimum distance estimator for the higher-order comoments of a multivariate distribution exhibiting a lower dimensional latent factor structure. We derive the influence function of the proposed estimator and prove its consistency and asymptotic normality. The simulation study confirms the large gains in accuracy compared to the traditional sample comoments. The empirical usefulness of the novel framework is shown in applications to portfolio allocation under…

大维情形下乘法相关结构的估计AI 解读

We propose a Kronecker product model for correlation or covariance matrices in the large dimensional case. The number of parameters of the model increases logarithmically with the dimension of the matrix. We propose a minimum distance (MD) estimator based on a log-linear property of the model, as well as a one-step estimator, which is a one-step approximation to the quasi-maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE). We establish rates of convergence and central limit theorems (CLT)…

大型投资组合条件 VaR 的虚拟历史模拟AI 解读

In order to estimate the conditional risk of a portfolio’s return, two strategies can be advocated. A multivariate strategy requires estimating a dynamic model for the vector of risk factors, which is often challenging, when at all possible, for large portfolios. A univariate approach based on a dynamic model for the portfolio’s return seems more attractive. However, when the combination of the individual returns is time varying, the portfolio’s return series is typically…

将隔夜与日内收益纳入多元 GARCH 波动率模型AI 解读

We propose and evaluate mixed-frequency multivariate GARCH models for forecasting low-frequency (weekly) volatility based on high-frequency intraday returns (at 5-minute intervals) and on the overnight returns. The low-frequency conditional volatility matrix is modeled as a weighted sum of an intraday and an overnight component. The components are specified as multivariate GARCH processes of the BEKK type, adapted to the mixed-frequency data setting, and may enter the model…

灵活的多元 Hill 估计量AI 解读

Dominicy et al. (2017) introduce a family of Hill estimators for elliptically distributed and heavy tailed random vectors. They propose to use the univariate Hill to a norm of order h of the data. The norms are homogeneous functions of order one. We show that the family of estimators can be generalized to homogeneous functions of any order and, more importantly, that ellipticity is not required. Only multivariate regular variation is needed, as it is preserved under…

总产出生产函数的识别AI 解读

We study the nonparametric identification of gross output production functions under the environment of the commonly employed proxy variable methods. We show that applying these methods to gross output requires additional sources of variation in the demand for flexible inputs (e.g., prices). Using a transformation of the firm’s first-order condition, we develop a new nonparametric identification strategy for gross output that can be employed even when additional sources of…

中央清算的价值AI 解读

ABSTRACT I study a contracting innovation that suddenly insulated traders of hedging contracts against counterparty risk: central clearing counterparties (CCPs) for derivatives. The first CCP was created in Le Havre (France) in 1882, in the coffee futures market. Using triple difference‐in‐differences estimation, I show that central clearing changed the geography of trade flows Europe‐wide, to the benefit of Le Havre. Inspecting the mechanism using trader‐level data, I find…

非参数工具变量回归及其他病态模型中的诚实置信集AI 解读

Abstract This article develops inferential methods for a very general class of ill-posed models in econometrics encompassing the nonparametric instrumental variable regression, various functional regressions, and the density deconvolution. We focus on uniform confidence sets for the parameter of interest estimated with Tikhonov regularization, as in Darolles et al. (2011, Econometrica 79, 1541–1565). Since it is impossible to have inferential methods based on the central…

聚类生存数据的一种新多层建模方法AI 解读

In multilevel modeling of clustered survival data, to account for the differences among different clusters, a commonly used approach is to introduce cluster effects, either random or fixed, into the model. Modeling with random effects may lead to difficulties in the implementation of the estimation procedure for the unknown parameters of interest because the numerical computation of multiple integrals may become unavoidable when the cluster effects are not scalars. On the…

非参数工具变量分位数回归的设定检验AI 解读

There are many environments in econometrics which require nonseparable modeling of a structural disturbance. In a nonseparable model with endogenous regressors, key conditions are validity of instrumental variables and monotonicity of the model in a scalar unobservable variable. Under these conditions the nonseparable model is equivalent to an instrumental quantile regression model. A failure of the key conditions, however, makes instrumental quantile regression potentially…

含生成回归变量的半参数模型之似然推断AI 解读

Hahn and Ridder (2013, Econometrica 81, 315–340) formulated influence functions of semiparametric three-step estimators where generated regressors are computed in the first step. This class of estimators covers several important examples for empirical analysis, such as production function estimators by Olley and Pakes (1996, Econometrica 64, 1263–1297) and propensity score matching estimators for treatment effects by Heckman, Ichimura, and Todd (1998, Review of Economic…

单位根中度偏离下核估计的渐近理论与非参数检验的水平AI 解读

We provide new asymptotic theory for kernel density estimators, when these are applied to autoregressive processes exhibiting moderate deviations from a unit root. This fills a gap in the existing literature, which has to date considered only nearly integrated and stationary autoregressive processes. These results have applications to nonparametric predictive regression models. In particular, we show that the null rejection probability of a nonparametric t test is controlled…

含确定性趋势的分数阶时间序列模型：截断平方和估计AI 解读

We consider truncated (or conditional) sum of squares estimation of a parametric model composed of a fractional time series and an additive generalized polynomial trend. Both the memory parameter, which characterizes the behavior of the stochastic component of the model, and the exponent parameter, which drives the shape of the deterministic component, are considered not only unknown real numbers but also lying in arbitrarily large (but finite) intervals. Thus, our model…

用收缩方法、实时扩散指数与模型组合预测利率AI 解读

Summary In the context of predicting the term structure of interest rates, we explore the marginal predictive content of real‐time macroeconomic diffusion indexes extracted from a “data rich” real‐time data set, when used in dynamic Nelson–Siegel (NS) models of the variety discussed in Svensson (NBER technical report, 1994; NSS) and Diebold and Li ( Journal of Econometrics , 2006, 130 , 337–364; DNS). Our diffusion indexes are constructed using principal component analysis…