Abstract
Abstract. We focus on estimating the integrated covariance of log‐price processes in the presence of market microstructure noise. We construct a consistent asymptotically unbiased estimator for the quadratic covariation of two Itô processes in the case where high‐frequency asynchronous discrete returns under market microstructure noise are observed. This estimator is based on synchronization and multi‐scale methods and attains the optimal rate of convergence. A lower bound for the rate of convergence is derived from the local asymptotic normality property of the simpler parametric model with equidistant and synchronous observations. A Monte Carlo study analyses the finite sample size characteristics of our estimator.
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