This paper considers spot variance path estimation from datasets of intraday high frequency asset prices in the presence of diurnal variance patterns, jumps, leverage effects and microstructure noise. We rely on parametric and nonparametric methods. The estimated spot variance path can be used...

This paper considers spot variance path estimation from datasets of intraday high frequency asset prices in the presence of diurnal variance patterns, jumps, leverage effects and microstructure noise. We rely on parametric and nonparametric methods. The estimated spot variance path can be used...

This paper develops methodology for semiparametric panel data models in a setting where both the time series and the cross section are large. Such settings are common in finance and other areas of economics. Our model allows for heterogeneous nonparametric covariate effects as well as unobserved...

This paper first examines the efficiency of the UK covered warrants market by adopting a stochastic dominance (SD) approach to examine market efficiency. Our empirical analyses reveal that neither covered warrants nor the underlying shares stochastically dominate each other, which implies that...

We extend to score, Wald and difference test statistics the scaled and adjusted corrections to goodness-of-fit test statistics developed in Satorra and Bentler (1988a,b). The theory is framed in the general context of multisample analysis of moment structures, under general conditions on the...

This paper studies second-order properties of the empirical likelihood overidentifying restriction test to check the validity of moment condition models. We show that the empirical likelihood test is Bartlett correctable and suggest second-order refinement methods for the test based on the...

The correlated gamma-frailty model is a generalization of Cox' proportional hazard model, which allows for correlation between individuals within the same group. The nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator in this model has previously been studied by Murphy (1994, 1995) and Parner (1998)....

In non- and semiparametric testing, the wild bootstrap is a standard method to determine the critical values of the test. While there exists an increasing literature on how to find a proper smoothing parameter for the nonparametric alternative, almost nothing is known how to choose a smoothing...

Applied researchers often test for the difference of the Sharpe ratios of two investment strategies. A very popular tool to this end is the test of Jobson and Korkie (1981), which has been corrected by Memmel (2003). Unfortunately, this test is not valid when returns have tails heavier than the...

This paper presents a new data-driven bandwidth selector compatible with the small bandwidth asymptotics developed in Cattaneo, Crump, and Jansson (2009) for density-weighted average derivatives. The new bandwidth selector is of the plug-in variety, and is obtained based on a mean squared error...