Nonlinear shrinkage estimation of large integrated covariance matrices

Clifford Lam, Phoenix Feng and Charlie Hu

Biometrika, 2017, vol. 104, issue 2, 481-488

Abstract: SummaryIntegrated covariance matrices arise in intraday models of asset returns, which allow volatility to change over the trading day. When the number of assets is large, the natural estimator of such a matrix suffers from bias due to extreme eigenvalues. We introduce a novel nonlinear shrinkage estimator for the integrated covariance matrix which shrinks the extreme eigenvalues of a realized covariance matrix back to an acceptable level, and enjoys a certain asymptotic efficiency when the number of assets is of the same order as the number of data points. Novel maximum exposure and actual risk bounds are derived when our estimator is used in constructing the minimum variance portfolio. In simulations and a real-data analysis, our estimator performs favourably in comparison with other methods.

Keywords: Extreme eigenvalue; High dimension; Intraday volatility; Maximum exposure bound; Portfolio allocation; Realized covariance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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