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LAD ASYMPTOTICS UNDER CONDITIONAL HETEROSKEDASTICITY WITH POSSIBLY INFINITE ERROR DENSITIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2010

Abstract

Least absolute deviations (LAD) estimation of linear time series models is considered under conditional heteroskedasticity and serial correlation. The limit theory of the LAD estimator is obtained without assuming the finite density condition for the errors that is required in standard LAD asymptotics. The results are particularly useful in application of LAD estimation to financial time series data.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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Footnotes

We thank Paolo Paruolo and three referees for helpful comments on the original version. The paper is motivated by technical considerations that arose in revising Han, Cho, and Phillips (2009, manuscript) for the Journal of Business & Economics Statistics, and we are grateful to the JBES review for raising them. Han acknowledges research support from a Korea University Special Faculty Research Fund. Phillips acknowledges support from a Kelly Fellowship and the NSF under grant SES 06-47086.

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