 Modified local Whittle estimator for long memory processes in the presence of low frequency (and other) contaminationsJie Hou and Pierre Perron Journal of Econometrics, 2014, vol. 182, issue 2, 309-328 Abstract: We propose a modified local-Whittle estimator of the memory parameter of a long memory time series process which has good properties under an almost complete collection of contamination processes that have been discussed in the literature, mostly separately. These contaminations include processes whose spectral density functions dominate at low frequencies such as random level shifts, deterministic level shifts and deterministic trends. We show that our modified estimator has the usual asymptotic distribution applicable for the standard local Whittle estimator in the absence of such contaminations. We also show how the estimator can be modified to further account for additive noise and that our modification for low frequency contamination reduces the bias due to short-memory dynamics. Through extensive simulations, we show that the proposed estimator provides substantial efficiency gains compared to existing semiparametric estimators in the presence of contaminations, with little loss of efficiency when these are absent. Keywords: Long memory process; Random level shifts; Short memory dynamics; Additive noise; Local-Whittle estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:econom:v:182:y:2014:i:2:p:309-328 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.05.004 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Econometrics is currently edited by T. Amemiya, A. R. Gallant, J. F. Geweke, C. Hsiao and P. M. Robinson More articles in Journal of Econometrics from Elsevier |
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