Efficient drift parameter estimation for ergodic solutions of backward SDEs

Abstract We derive consistency and asymptotic normality results for quasi‐maximum likelihood methods for drift parameters of ergodic stochastic processes observed in discrete time in an underlying continuous‐time setting. The special feature of our analysis is that the stochastic integral part is unobserved and nonparametric. Additionally, the drift may depend on the (unknown and unobserved) stochastic integrand. Our results hold for ergodic semi‐parametric diffusions and backward SDEs. Simulation studies confirm that the methods proposed yield good convergence results.