[R-SIG-Finance] Correlation between two asynchronous time series?

[Adrian Trapletti]

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> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:53:14 -0800
> From: Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] correlation between two asynchronous time
> 	series?
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> Hi all,
>
> If I want to find out the correlation between two time series, one is
> the Hong Kong stock index, the other is the S&P 500. The two markets
> open at two different time.
>
> What impact it might have on my estimate of the correlation of the two
> series? 
Big impact.
> How do I address this asynchronous time series problem? Any
> good models?
>   
Either you use something along the lines of 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332901or better you 
use high frequency data (e.g., the S&P 500 futures is open almost 24 
hours and you will get overlapping hours with the Asian markets).
> Thanks a lot!
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>   
Best regards
Adrian

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