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2008

Long memory

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Long Memory And Long Run Variation, Peter C.B. Phillips May 2008

Long Memory And Long Run Variation, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

A commonly used defining property of long memory time series is the power law decay of the autocovariance function. Some alternative methods of deriving this property are considered working from the alternate definition in terms of a fractional pole in the spectrum at the origin. The methods considered involve the use of (i) Fourier transforms of generalized functions, (ii) asymptotic expansions of Fourier integrals with singularities, (iii) direct evaluation using hypergeometric function algebra, and (iv) conversion to a simple gamma integral. The paper is largely pedagogical but some novel methods and results involving complete asymptotic series representations are presented. The …


Nonlinearity And Temporal Dependence, Xiaohong Chen, Lars P. Hansen, Marine Carrasco May 2008

Nonlinearity And Temporal Dependence, Xiaohong Chen, Lars P. Hansen, Marine Carrasco

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Nonlinearities in the drift and diffusion coefficients influence temporal dependence in scalar diffusion models. We study this link using two notions of temporal dependence: beta-mixing and rho-mixing. We show that beta-mixing and rho-mixing with exponential decay are essentially equivalent concepts for scalar diffusions. For stationary diffusions that fail to be rho-mixing, we show that they are still beta-mixing except that the decay rates are slower than exponential. For such processes we find transformations of the Markov states that have finite variances but infinite spectral densities at frequency zero. Some have spectral densities that diverge at frequency zero in a manner …


Nonlinearity And Temporal Dependence, Xiaohong Chen, Lars P. Hansen, Marine Carrasco May 2008

Nonlinearity And Temporal Dependence, Xiaohong Chen, Lars P. Hansen, Marine Carrasco

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Nonlinearities in the drift and diffusion coefficients influence temporal dependence in diffusion models. We study this link using three measures of temporal dependence: rho-mixing, beta-mixing and alpha-mixing. Stationary diffusions that are rho-mixing have mixing coefficients that decay exponentially to zero. When they fail to be rho-mixing, they are still beta-mixing and alpha-mixing; but coefficient decay is slower than exponential. For such processes we find transformations of the Markov states that have finite variances but infinite spectral densities at frequency zero. The resulting spectral densities behave like those of stochastic processes with long memory. Finally we show how state-dependent, Poisson sampling …