Estimating Time-Varying Parameters of Various Smoothness in Linear Models via Kernel Regression
用核回归估计线性模型中不同光滑度的时变参数
We study kernel-based estimation of nonparametric time-varying parameters (TVPs) in linear models. Our contributions are threefold. First, we establish consistency and asymptotic normality of the kernel-based estimator for a broad class of TVPs including deterministic smooth functions, the rescaled random walk, structural breaks, the threshold model and their mixtures. Our analysis exploits the smoothness of the TVP. Second, we show that the bandwidth rate must be determined…