Andrews, Donald W.K.; Sun, Yixiao - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2002
The local Whittle (or Gaussian semiparametric) estimator of long range dependence, proposed by Kunsch (1987) and analyzed by Robinson (1995a), has a relatively slow rate of convergence and a finite sample bias that can be large. In this paper, we generalize the local Whittle estimator to...