This article develops a state space method for estimating the integrated variance under the existence of market microstructure noise (MMN). Our method is based on a state space representation of the noisecontaminated RV (NCRV), namely, the realized variance (RV) calculated with observed prices contaminated by MMNs. The main idea of our method is to filter out the bias component, which we call t…

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