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WEAK DIFFUSION LIMITS OF DYNAMIC CONDITIONAL CORRELATION MODELS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2016

Christian M. Hafner ,
Sebastien Laurent  and
Francesco Violante
Christian M. Hafner*
Affiliation:
Université catholique de Louvain
Sebastien Laurent
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille University
Francesco Violante
Affiliation:
Aarhus University
*
*Address correspondance to Christian M. Hafner, Université catholique de Louvain, ISBA and CORE, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, e-mail: Christian.hafner@uclouvain.be.
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The properties of dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) models, introduced more than a decade ago, are still not entirely known. This paper fills one of the gaps by deriving weak diffusion limits of a modified version of the classical DCC model. The limiting system of stochastic differential equations is characterized by a diffusion matrix of reduced rank. The degeneracy is due to perfect collinearity between the innovations of the volatility and correlation dynamics. For the special case of constant conditional correlations, a nondegenerate diffusion limit can be obtained. Alternative sets of conditions are considered for the rate of convergence of the parameters, obtaining time-varying but deterministic variances and/or correlations. A Monte Carlo experiment confirms that the often used quasi-approximate maximum likelihood (QAML) method to estimate the diffusion parameters is inconsistent for any fixed frequency, but that it may provide reasonable approximations for sufficiently large frequencies and sample sizes.

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Econometric Theory , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , June 2017 , pp. 691 - 716
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

Footnotes

This work was granted access to the HPC resources of Aix-Marseille Université financed by the project Equip@Meso (ANR-10-EQPX-29-01) of the program Investissements d’Avenir supervised by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

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