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TAIL DEPENDENCE OF OLS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2021

Jochem Oorschot and
Chen Zhou
Jochem Oorschot*
Affiliation:
Erasmus University Rotterdam Tinbergen Institute
Chen Zhou
Affiliation:
Erasmus University Rotterdam De Nederlandsche Bank Tinbergen Institute
*
Address correspondence to Jochem Oorschot, Department of Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: oorschot@ese.eur.nl.
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This paper shows that if the errors in a multiple regression model are heavy-tailed, the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimators for the regression coefficients are tail-dependent. The tail dependence arises, because the OLS estimators are stochastic linear combinations of heavy-tailed random variables. Moreover, tail dependence also exists between the fitted sum of squares (FSS) and the residual sum of squares (RSS), because they are stochastic quadratic combinations of heavy-tailed random variables.

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Econometric Theory , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2022, pp. 273 - 300
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Footnotes

Views expressed do not reflect the official position of De Nederlandsche Bank. We are grateful to two referees for their insightful comments.

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