A Score-Driven Conditional Correlation Model for Noisy and Asynchronous Data: An Application to High-Frequency Covariance Dynamics

31 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2017 Last revised: 4 Mar 2020

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Giuseppe Buccheri

University of Verona - Department of Economics

Giacomo Bormetti

University of Bologna - Department of Mathematics

Fulvio Corsi

University of Pisa - Department of Economics

Fabrizio Lillo

Università di Bologna

Date Written: March 2, 2020

Abstract

The analysis of the intraday dynamics of covariances among high-frequency returns is challenging due to asynchronous trading and market microstructure noise. Both effects lead to significant data reduction and may severely affect the estimation of the covariances if traditional methods for low-frequency data are employed. We propose to model intraday log-prices through a multivariate local-level model with score-driven covariance matrices and to treat asynchronicity as a missing value problem. The main advantages of this approach are: (i) all available data are used when filtering the covariances, (ii) market microstructure noise is taken into account, (iii) estimation is performed by standard maximum likelihood. Our empirical analysis, performed on 1-second NYSE data, shows that opening hours are dominated by idiosyncratic risk and that a market factor progressively emerges in the second part of the day. The method can be used as a nowcasting tool for high-frequency data, allowing to study the real-time response of covariances to macro-news announcements and to build intraday portfolios with very short optimization horizons.

Keywords: Intraday Correlations; Dynamic Dependencies; Asynchronicity; Microstructure Noise

JEL Classification: C58; D53; D81

Suggested Citation

Buccheri, Giuseppe and Bormetti, Giacomo and Corsi, Fulvio and Lillo, Fabrizio, A Score-Driven Conditional Correlation Model for Noisy and Asynchronous Data: An Application to High-Frequency Covariance Dynamics (March 2, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2912438 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2912438

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Giacomo Bormetti

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Fulvio Corsi

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Fabrizio Lillo

Università di Bologna ( email )

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