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Nonparametric Estimation for Mixed-Frequency Time Series: A Convolution Approach

金谷　信 (Aarhus University)

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Nonparametric Estimation for Mixed-Frequency Time Series: A Convolution Approach

金谷　信 (Aarhus University)

Financial time series, such as nominal exchange rates and short-term interest rates, are often available with high frequency (say, daily), while macroeconomic time series, such as inflation rates, can be typically observed only with low frequency (say, monthly). In this mixed-frequency situation, one way to implement econometric/statistical inference based on two time series is to use them only with low frequency, but this necessarily ignores some of high frequency observations. In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric estimation method to make use of all high and low frequency observations. We in particular consider the case where a process Yt of interest is defined as the sum of two processes Xt and Zt: the former is observed with high frequency and the latter is so with low frequency, i.e., Yt = Xt + Zt, while by the definition, the interested process Yt is observed with the same (low) frequency as Zt. Based on a convolution-like technique, which exploits the additive structure of the interested process, we propose new nonparametric estimators of probability density and conditional mean functions. We show that the new estimators are asymptotically normally distributed, whose limit variance is smaller than that of a standard estimator which only uses low frequency observations.