Whang, Yoon-Jae; Linton, Oliver - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 1997
This paper derives the asymptotic distribution of a smoothing-based estimator of the Lyapunov exponent for a stochastic time series under two general scenarios. In the first case, we are able to establish root-T consistency and asymptotic normality, while in the second case, which is more...