Robust Estimation of Realized Correlation: New Insights about Intraday Fluctuations in Market Betas
已实现相关性的稳健估计:市场贝塔日内波动的新见解
Time-varying volatility is an inherent feature of economic time series and complicates correlation measurement at high frequencies. While the quadrant correlation estimator is robust to volatility dynamics, it has low efficiency under Gaussian sampling. We introduce a subsampled quadrant correlation estimator that improves efficiency while retaining robustness and computational simplicity. The estimator is based solely on sign information and involves no smoothing parameter…