On the Correlation Structure of Microstructure Noise: A Financial Economic Approach

Francis Diebold and Georg Strasser

No 16469, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We introduce the financial economics of market microstructure into the financial econometrics of asset return volatility estimation. In particular, we use market microstructure theory to derive the cross-correlation function between latent returns and market microstructure noise, which feature prominently in the recent volatility literature. The cross-correlation at zero displacement is typically negative, and cross-correlations at nonzero displacements are positive and decay geometrically. If market makers are sufficiently risk averse, however, the cross-correlation pattern is inverted. Our results are useful for assessing the validity of the frequently-assumed independence of latent price and microstructure noise, for explaining observed cross-correlation patterns, for predicting as-yet undiscovered patterns, and for making informed conjectures regarding improved volatility estimation methods.

JEL-codes: C51 D82 D83 G14 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10
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Published as Francis X. Diebold & Georg Strasser, 2013. "On the Correlation Structure of Microstructure Noise: A Financial Economic Approach," Review of Economic Studies, Oxford University Press, vol. 80(4), pages 1304-1337.

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