Understanding Regressions with Observations Collected at High Frequency over Long Span

Yoosoon Chang (), Ye Lu and Joon Park ()
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Yoosoon Chang: Indiana University
Joon Park: Department of Economics Indiana University and Sungkyunkwan University

No 2019-001, CAEPR Working Papers from Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze regressions with observations collected at small time intervals over a long period of time. For the formal asymptotic analysis, we assume that samples are obtained from continuous time stochastic processes, and let the sampling interval δ shrink down to zero and the sample span T increase up to infinity. In this setup, we show that the standard Wald statistic diverges to infinity and the regression becomes spurious as long as δ → 0 sufficiently fast relative to T → ∞. Such a phenomenon is indeed what is frequently observed in practice for the type of regressions considered in the paper. In contrast, our asymptotic theory predicts that the spuriousness disappears if we use the robust version of the Wald test with an appropriate longrun variance estimate. This is supported, strongly and unambiguously, by our empirical illustration.

Keywords: high frequency regression; spurious regression; continuous time model; asymptotics; longrun variance estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2018-09
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