Latent factor model estimation typically relies on either using domain knowledge to manually pick several observed covariates as factor proxies, or purely conducting multivariate analysis such as principal component analysis. However, the former approach may suffer from the bias while the latter...

We develop a volatility estimator that can be directly applied to tick-by-tick data. More specifically, we consider a model that allows for (i) irregular observation times that can be endogenous, (ii) dependent noise that can have diurnal features and be dependent on the latent price process,...

This paper studies the estimation of high-dimensional minimum variance portfolio (MVP) based on the high frequency returns which can exhibit heteroscedasticity and possibly be contaminated by microstructure noise. Under certain sparsity assumptions on the precision matrix, we propose estimators...