Noncentral Skewed HEAVY Model for High-Dimensional Realized Returns and Covariances Matrices
Taras Bodnar, Yarema Okhrin, Nestor Parolya, Michael Stollenwerk
June, 2021
Abstract
We combine the Non-Central matrix-F distribution assumed for the time-series of realized covariance matrices with a Non-Central multivariate t distribution for the open-to-close returns to derive a flexible HEAVY model that can control for market microstructure noise.

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