Testing the martingale difference hypothesis in high dimension

Jinyuan Chang, Qing Jiang and Xiaofeng Shao

Journal of Econometrics, 2023, vol. 235, issue 2, 972-1000

Abstract: In this paper, we consider testing the martingale difference hypothesis for high-dimensional time series. Our test is built on the sum of squares of the element-wise max-norm of the proposed matrix-valued nonlinear dependence measure at different lags. To conduct the inference, we approximate the null distribution of our test statistic by Gaussian approximation and provide a simulation-based approach to generate critical values. The asymptotic behavior of the test statistic under the alternative is also studied. Our approach is nonparametric as the null hypothesis only assumes the time series concerned is martingale difference without specifying any parametric forms of its conditional moments. As an advantage of Gaussian approximation, our test is robust to the cross-series dependence of unknown magnitude. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first valid test for the martingale difference hypothesis that not only allows for large dimension but also captures nonlinear serial dependence. The practical usefulness of our test is illustrated via simulation and a real data analysis. The test is implemented in a user-friendly R-function.

Keywords: α-mixing; Gaussian approximation; High-dimensional statistical inference; Martingale difference hypothesis; Parametric bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C15 C55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.09.001

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