Hierarchical Regularizers for Reverse Unrestricted Mixed Data Sampling Regressions

Alain Hecq, Marie Ternes*, Ines Wilms

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Reverse Unrestricted MIxed DAta Sampling (RU-MIDAS) regressions are used to model high-frequency responses by means of low-frequency variables. However, due to the periodic structure of RU-MIDAS regressions, the dimensionality grows quickly if the frequency mismatch between the high- and low-frequency variables is large. Additionally the number of high-frequency observations available for estimation decreases. We propose to counteract this reduction in sample size by pooling the high-frequency coefficients and further reduce the dimensionality through a sparsity-inducing convex regularizer that accounts for the temporal ordering among the different lags. To this end, the regularizer prioritizes the inclusion of lagged coefficients according to the recency of the information they contain. We demonstrate the proposed method on an empirical application for daily realized volatility forecasting where we explore whether modeling high-frequency volatility data in terms of low-frequency macroeconomic data pays off.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherCornell University - arXiv
Number of pages23
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Publication series

SeriesarXiv.org
Number arXiv:2301.10592
ISSN2331-8422

Keywords

  • mixed-frequency models
  • MIDAS MODELS
  • forecasting
  • group lasso

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