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Econometrica Vol. 63 No. 5 1995

Regression with Nonstationary Volatility

Bruce E. Hansen

Abstract

A new asymptotic theory of regression is introduced for possibly nonstationary time series. The regressors are assumed to be generated by a linear process with martingale difference innovations. The conditional variances of these martingale differences are specified as autoregressive stochastic volatility processes with autoregressive roots that are local to unity. The author finds conditions under which the least squares estimates are consistent and asymptotically normal. A simple adaptive estimator is proposed which achieves the same asymptotic distribution as the generalized least squares estimator without requiring parameter assumptions for the stochastic volatility process.

DOI
10.2307/2171723
Volume
63
Issue
5
Pages
1113
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex

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