Statistical Methods for High-dimensional Volatility

EI Seminar
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In recent years, there has been growing interest in statistical methods for high-dimensional volatility processes in continuous-time models. In such settings, classical estimators, such as realized (co-)variance, often exhibit poor performance. To address this, existing approaches typically impose sparsity assumptions on the integrated volatility matrix and rely on shrinkage-based techniques, such as LASSO.

Speaker
Mark Podolskij
Date
Thursday 16 Apr 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
Type
Seminar
Room
ET-14
Building
E Building
Location
Campus Woudestein
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joint work with Grégoire Szymanski

In contrast, this talk focuses on the estimation of the spectral distribution of the integrated volatility matrix without imposing sparsity constraints. We propose a consistent estimator for the spectral distribution based on an inversion of the celebrated Marčenko–Pastur theorem from random matrix theory. 

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