Spectral density estimation and robust hypothesis testing using steep origin kernels without truncation

A new class of kernels for long-run variance and spectral density estimation is developed by exponentiating traditional quadratic kernels. Depending on whether the exponent parameter is allowed to grow with the sample size, we establish different asymptotic approximations to the sampling distributio...

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Main Authors: PHILIPS, Peter C.B, SUN, Yixiao, JIN, Sainan
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1993
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2992/viewcontent/Phillips_et_al_2006_International_Economic_Review__1___1_.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:A new class of kernels for long-run variance and spectral density estimation is developed by exponentiating traditional quadratic kernels. Depending on whether the exponent parameter is allowed to grow with the sample size, we establish different asymptotic approximations to the sampling distribution of the proposed estimators. When the exponent is passed to infinity with the sample size, the new estimator is consistent and shown to be asymptotically normal. When the exponent is fixed, the new estimator is inconsistent and has a nonstandard limiting distribution. It is shown via Monte Carlo experiments that, when the chosen exponent is small in practical applications, the nonstandard limit theory provides better approximations to the finite sample distributions of the spectral density estimator and the associated test statistic in regression settings.