Monday, February 18, 2019

optimization - Shrinkage Estimator for Newey-West Covariance Matrix



I like to apply the Newey-West covariance estimator for portfolio optmization which is given by Σ=Σ(0)+12(Σ(1)+Σ(1)T),

where Σ(i) is the lag i covariance matrix for i=0,1. Furthermore I like to use shrinkage estimators as implemented in the corpcor package for R. The identity matrix as shrinkage prior for Σ(0) is plausible.


What would you use as prior for Σ(1) - the zero-matrix? Do you know an R implementation that allows to estimate lag-covariance matrices using shrinkage? There must be some basic difference as a lag-covariance matrix is not necessarily positive-definite (e.g. the zero-matrix). If I apply shrinkage to Σ(0) and use the standard sample-estimator for Σ(1) then it is not assured that Σ is positive-definite.


EDIT: The above definition is taken from:


Whitney K. Newey and Keneth D. West. A simple, positive semi-denite, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix. Econometrica, 55(3):703-708, 1987.


It can also be found here in formula (1.9) on page 6.




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