Quantile inference for near-integrated autoregressive time series under infinite variance and strong dependence

Ngai Hang Chan and Rong-Mao Zhang

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2009, vol. 119, issue 12, 4124-4148

Abstract: Consider a near-integrated time series driven by a heavy-tailed and long-memory noise , where {[eta]j} is a sequence of i.i.d random variables belonging to the domain of attraction of a stable law with index [alpha]. The limit distribution of the quantile estimate and the semi-parametric estimate of the autoregressive parameters with long- and short-range dependent innovations are established in this paper. Under certain regularity conditions, it is shown that when the noise is short-memory, the quantile estimate converges weakly to a mixture of a Gaussian process and a stable Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (O-U) process while the semi-parametric estimate converges weakly to a normal distribution. But when the noise is long-memory, the limit distribution of the quantile estimate becomes substantially different. Depending on the range of the stable index [alpha], the limit distribution is shown to be either a functional of a fractional stable O-U process or a mixture of a stable process and a stable O-U process. These results indicate that although the quantile estimate tends to be more efficient for infinite variance time series, extreme caution should be exercised in the long-memory situation.

Keywords: Heavy-tailed; Long-range; dependent; Near-integrated; time; series; and; quantile; regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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