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Heteroskedasticity in Stock Returns / G. William Schwert, Paul J. Seguin.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schwert, G. William.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Seguin, Paul J.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2956.
NBER working paper series no. w2956
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
Summary:
We use predictions of aggregate stock return variances from daily data to estimate time varying monthly variances for size-ranked portfolios. We propose and estimate a single factor model of heteroskedasticity for portfolio returns. This model implies time-varying betas. Implications of heteroskedasticity and time-varying betas for tests of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) are then documented. Accounting for heteroskedasticity increases the evidence that risk-adjusted returns are related to firm size. We also estimate a constant correlation model. Portfolio volatilities predicted by this model are similar to those predicted by more complex multivariate generalized-autoregressive- conditional- heteroskedasticity (GARCH) procedures.
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Print version record
May 1989.

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