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BLOCK BOOTSTRAP CONSISTENCY UNDER WEAK ASSUMPTIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2018

Gray Calhoun*
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
*
*Address correspondence to Gray Calhoun, Economics Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; e-mail: gcalhoun@iastate.edu, url: http://gray.clhn.org.

Abstract

This paper weakens the size and moment conditions needed for typical block bootstrap methods (i.e., the moving blocks, circular blocks, and stationary bootstraps) to be valid for the sample mean of Near-Epoch-Dependent (NED) functions of mixing processes; they are consistent under the weakest conditions that ensure the original NED process obeys a central limit theorem (CLT), established by De Jong (1997, Econometric Theory 13(3), 353–367). In doing so, this paper extends De Jong’s method of proof, a blocking argument, to hold with random and unequal block lengths. This paper also proves that bootstrapped partial sums satisfy a functional CLT (FCLT) under the same conditions.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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