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Review of Economic Studies Vol. 61 No. 4 1994

Automatic Lag Selection in Covariance Matrix Estimation

W. K. Newey1; K. D. West2

1 Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology · 2 University of Wisconsin

Abstract

We propose a nonparametric method for automatically selecting the number of autocovariances to use in computing a heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix. For a given kernel for weighting the autocovariances, we prove that our procedure is asymptotically equivalent to one that is optimal under a mean-squared error loss function. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that our procedure performs tolerably well, although it does result in size distortions.

DOI
10.2307/2297912
Volume
61
Issue
4
Pages
631-653
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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