On uniform confidence intervals for the tail index and the extreme quantile
This paper presents two results concerning uniform confidence intervals for the tail index and the extreme quantile. First, we show that there exists a lower bound of the length for confidence intervals that satisfy the correct uniform coverage over a nonparametric family of tail distributions. Seco...
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Published in | Journal of econometrics Vol. 244; no. 1; p. 105865 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Elsevier B.V
01.08.2024
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Summary: | This paper presents two results concerning uniform confidence intervals for the tail index and the extreme quantile. First, we show that there exists a lower bound of the length for confidence intervals that satisfy the correct uniform coverage over a nonparametric family of tail distributions. Second, in light of the impossibility result, we construct honest confidence intervals that are uniformly valid by incorporating the worst-case bias in the nonparametric family. The proposed method is applied to simulated data and real data of financial time series. |
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ISSN: | 0304-4076 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105865 |