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On the Correlation Structure of Microstructure Noise in Theory and Practice

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Francis X. Diebold () (Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania)
Georg H. Strasser () (Department of Economics, Boston College)

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We argue for incorporating the financial economics of market microstructure into the financial econometrics of asset return volatility estimation. In particular, we use market microstructure theory to derive the cross-correlation function between latent returns and market microstructure noise, which feature prominently in the recent volatility literature. The cross-correlation at zero displacement is typically negative, and cross-correlations at nonzero displacements are positive and decay geometrically. If market makers are sufficiently risk averse, however, the cross-correlation pattern is inverted. Our results are useful for assessing the validity of the frequently-assumed independence of latent price and microstructure noise, for explaining observed crosscorrelation patterns, for predicting as-yet undiscovered patterns, and for making informed conjectures as to improved volatility estimation methods.

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Paper provided by Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania in its series PIER Working Paper Archive with number 08-038.

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Keywords: Realized volatility; Market microstructure theory; High-frequency data; Financial econometrics;

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G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies
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D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation

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