Pre-averaging estimators of the ex-post covariance matrix in noisy diffusion models with non-synchronous data
含噪扩散模型中非同步数据的事后协方差矩阵预平均估计
We show how pre-averaging can be applied to the problem of measuring the ex-post covariance of financial asset returns under microstructure noise and non-synchronous trading. A pre-averaged realised covariance is proposed, and we present an asymptotic theory for this new estimator, which can be configured to possess an optimal convergence rate or to ensure positive semi-definite covariance matrix estimates. We also derive a noise-robust Hayashi-Yoshida estimator that can be…