Hautsch, Nikolaus; Kyj, Lada M.; Hautsch, Nikolaus - Center for Financial Studies - 2009
We introduce a regularization and blocking estimator for well-conditioned high-dimensional daily covariances using high-frequency data. Using the Barndorff-Nielsen, Hansen, Lunde, and Shephard (2008a) kernel estimator, we estimate the covariance matrix block-wise and regularize it. A data-driven...