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Through-the-cycle rating transition matrix

Suppose we know the observed transition matrix for annual migrations between credit ratings, $T_{ij,t}$, for $N$ years. How is the through-the-cycle (TTC) transition matrix defined? Sometimes the ...
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Shanken's correction for Fama-MacBeth (1973) generalization of the CAPM

Fama & MacBeth (1973) tested the CAPM against an alternative that the dependence between the expected excess return $E(r_{i,t}^∗)$ and the relative systematic risk $\beta_𝑖$ is nonlinear (namely, ...
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The original standard error estimation of Fama and French (2015) paper

I have a question about the estimation method of the original paper of Fama and French (2015) regarding the five factor model and the t statistics. Are they using non-robust standard errors or are ...
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Do resistance levels for financial securities prices exist? [duplicate]

I know there is a large controversy about whether or not technical trading rules are profitable and research results depend on asset classes, time frames, trading costs, risk-adjusted return ...
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If investors face different tax rates, how can an asset pricing model be built so that it satisfies the incentive constraints of both investors?

The CAPM and other models have been expanded to include the impact of corporate/personal taxes. However, what if these tax rates differ for an investor pool holding the same equity stake (which by ...
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How to find the formula for the (equivalent of) half-life of a VECM model

I have time-series of daily asset prices which are not stationary. Cointegration tests show that these variables are cointegrated. As such, I have fitted a VECM model which is well-behaved. I want to ...
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Interpretation of coefficients of a Probit model [closed]

The exact problem I am trying to solve is as follows. I have a Probit specification: $$ P_t = \Phi(\beta^T x_t) $$ where $\Phi$ is a standard normal CDF and $x$ is a matrix of independent variables ...
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How do asset prices behave in a single-period and multi-period model?

When we talk about the single-period CAPM, the return in a particular period t can be defined as $(P_t - P_{t-1})/P_{t-1}$. Investors plan at t-1 and get a payoff at t. After this period, the same ...
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Most famous research papers to get started in quant finance [duplicate]

I have a strong background in finance and I know how to code, but I am lacking the statistical modelling part. I have started courses in mathematics and statistics. However, it is turning out very ...
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Model is economically significant, but has negative $R^2$?

I'm reading a paper by Rama Cont that says (Page 25): We remark that negative R^2 values do not imply that the forecasts are economically meaningless. To emphasize this point, we will incorporate ...
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What is selling intensity, loss intensity, and how can I calibrate them?

Thought asking around on a problem I'm currently facing. I have a hypothetical multi-asset portfolio of equities and bonds, on which I'm trying to measure it's liquidity risk in stressed periods. I've ...
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What program to use for reverse MIDAS?

I know EViews is used for mixed-data sampling (MIDAS). Can someone pls help me identify a program I can use for reverse MIDAS? Thank you.
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How does truncating data deal with long right tails of data? Why is a long right tail bad?

For reference, my coworker graphed the unemployment rate with an HP Filter on. He told me he truncated the data to 95% to deal with this issue but I'm not 100% sure what this means and why its ...
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Global Country Index for Insurance

I am trying to create a global country index for insurance. So this would be insurance by country. Anybody who is an expert in econometrics can give me some guidance on how to do this? How would I go ...
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What are the example of "repeated cross-section" and "two cross-sectional dimensions"?

Borusyak, 2021 has a sentence In Section 5 we consider extensions to repeated cross-sections, data defined by two cross-sectional dimensions (e.g. regions and age groups), triple-differences designs, ...
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What is the relationship between the estimated GARCH(1,1) conditional volatility and the true conditional volatility

Suppose that the data has been generated by a GARCH(1,1) model, i.e. \begin{align} y_t &= h_t \epsilon_t, \; \epsilon_t \sim N(0,1) \\ h_t &= \alpha_0 + \alpha_1 \epsilon_{t-1}^2 + \...
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Why we need to control for import and exchange rate change when examining asset growth?

Dasgupta , 2019 examines the impact of antitrust laws on asset growth, total net external financing, debt-to-equity ratio. In his regression, I saw that he controls for imports as a percentage of GDP, ...
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How to build Fama-French model factors SMB and HML to compare sustainable index to conventional benchmark?

My goal is to analyze and compare the performance between socially responsible indices and conventional ones. I am comparing for each region (Europe, UK, World, US) a sustainable index to a ...
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Should we include the industry variables when we control for year*industry fixed effects?

In panel data, we control for firms and years fixed effects even we also have some time-variant firm-level regressors. I am wondering whether it also happens at the industry level. If it is the case, ...
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Why does the rate of inflation vary over time?

Interest rates have varied significantly over the last 50+ years (source: https://www.macrotrends.net/2016/10-year-treasury-bond-rate-yield-chart ). Is it possible to comprehensively and succinctly ...
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Cross-checking Treasury's Major Foreign Holders Report

I was looking for bad things waiting to happen on the Ides of March, and the next Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities report came up as a candidate. It is due on March 15th, 2021. The report ...
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Fama-French model interpretation of coefficients help

So i've run a regression for a stock and these are the results. I was wondering if I'm right in inferring that because the SMB coefficient is negative, this particular stock I've chosen has a large ...
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What is the Id in the ARIMA model in Notes on financial risk of Privault?

I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I am studying the time series from Privault's Notes on Financial Risks. In the ARIMA model part I can't understand what is "I_d", it is ...
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Examining individual portfolio allocation changes over time

I am currently working with a pretty large panel dataset containing the investment holdings of many individuals over time (i.e., for each individual I know the positions per stock over time). I was ...
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How to show that a Brownian motion is normally distributed and that the covariance is zero? [closed]

I need help under standing this question. So i have the following given the logarithm of the price of a share of stock is given by \begin{align*} p(t)=p(0)+\mu t+\sigma W(t), \quad t \in[0, T] \end{...
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Looking for a good introduction to modelling ARCH-type models

I am starting to think about my dissertation topic for my undergraduate degree. I am interested in comparing volatility of stock indices during COVID-19 to the years leading up to the pandemic. I have ...
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Correlation vs. dependence in finance

I found an example that shows how two uncorrelated random variables can be dependent: a normally distributed variable $X$ is not correlated with its square $Y=X^2$. What can be $X$ and what can be $Y$ ...
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Which references would be useful as an introduction to econometrics as it pertains to CONTINUOUS TIME models?

It seems like the problem of trying to estimate model parameters for continuous time models is not commonly covered in standard econometric textbooks, even those focusing on time series. I certainly ...
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Question on the use of a limit in a proof

I ran into a step in an argument that I can't quite figure out. It's basically how they use a limit that I don't seem to understand. The context is local-to-unity asymptotics in vector autoregressions,...
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Why is Banque de France using BVAR with different orders of integration?

Don't all the variables used have to be of the same order of integration in VAR models ? In this paper Bayesian VAR Forecasts, Survey Information and Structural Change in the Euro Area Gergely Ganics ...
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Monte Carlo approach and methods for generating random returns

Recently I found myself reading more about Monte Carlo approach in m.v. portfolio optimization framework. I already discuss the topic on this forum (if interested please consider the following links - ...
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Can you approximate stochastic volatility processes using GARCH processes?

Let me specific. Suppose that you have the following process: \begin{align} z_t &= \sigma_t \epsilon_t \\ \sigma_t &= \sigma \exp \left( \frac{v_t}{2} \right) \end{align} where $v_t$...
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Is it legitimate to assess the resilience of industries and sectors through the stock market?

I would like to assess the resilience of some sectors in Europe but I honestly lack data, and it seemed to me the simplest solution to be able to implement univariate (arima etc) and multivariate (...
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Applying GRS-test on non-normal residuals with autocorrelation

Is it valid to apply GRS-test (Gibbons, Ross and Shanken 1989) on non-normal and autocorrelated residuals? I got residuals using 10 test-assets regressed on 3-factor and carhart. If it is valid, how ...
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What's the difference between Statistics and Econometrics? [closed]

I can't really grasp the similarities and differences between Statistics and Econometrics. Is Econometrics includes every Statistical models inside it? or is there areas of Statistics outside of the ...
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CAPM and the Fama-MacBeth (1973)

I need to conduct the Fama-MacBeth (FM) procedure for my thesis to test the ability of the six-factor model to predict future expected returns. In univariate regressions of expected excess returns on ...
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Suppose that we are wrong about the relevant class of distributions for financial economics and econometrics. Now what?

I read a very interesting paper by Harris (2017) where he points out some interesting link between market microstructure and the distribution of returns on equity. You can make a good case that the ...
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What is the R code for estimating copula parameters of BB1 with dim=2? And what's the code for gof test of BB1?

Kindly assist with R code for BB1 copula. Text books and research articles provide codes for clayton, gumbel, frank, normal and t copulas. However, I can't find code for BB1, the copula family ...
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maximum likelihood pdf

I am looking at the topic maximum likelihood, and I cannot understand why we set the pdf of $y_{t}$ equal to 1. It is with regards to a OLS example. The information i got is this: Model: $y_{t}=\...
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Forecasting Volatility using GARCH in Python - Arch Package

Disclaimer: Posted this on stackoverflow, but maybe here should be the right place to ask something about GARCH I'm testing ARCH package to forecast the Variance (Standard Deviation) of two series ...
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Asset prices Boom,Bust and Recovery cycles

Is there any systematic way to detect the Boom, bust and Recovery cycles in Asset Prices ? Are there any good references about the Topic ? Thanks in advance.
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Cash flows regression on macroeconomic data

I'm looking into a research project and am struggling to find any existing work on this or whether I'm asking the right question. My question is to test the relationship between macroeconomic ...
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evaluating garch models

I used ugarchroll to backtest my garch model on S&P returns this is my code ...
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Correlation coefficient without cash flows?

I'm an intern at a company and one of our tasks is to calculate the the probability of default of both participants of a Swap(a Client and a Bank), for which we first need the correlation coefficient ...
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Using cumulative returns to hedge against the overall trend

I am curious about a hypothetical strategy where you are long for a given period (like a year), and at the same time you hedge against the overall trend by going short everyday and accumulating the ...
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How to calculate Information Ratio?

In the book titled "Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk" by Grinold & Kahn, the information ratio is defined as "the ratio of ...
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Cointegration between prices and dividends. How do I get the following expression?

Actually, I have two questions: 1. Let us assume that expected returns are constant. Then, we have the following expression for how the prices should be determined, provided that the operators are ...
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Gibbons, Ross, Shanken Test derivation by MLE

I Am trying to derive the expression for the GRS test of the CAPM. I am following the book: The Econometrics Of Financial Markets by Campbell, Lo, McKinley (1997). Define $Z_t$ as an $N×1$ vector of ...
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How to normalize stock exchange indexes

I am doing an academic research in behavioral finance and I need to calculate my abnormal return based on the normalized returns of the stock exchange index being the S&P 500. In other words, I ...
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What does A(B) mean in time series

So I have been reading some papers regarding time series, mainly from Granger and Engle. I am a bachelor econometrics student, but I have never seen such notation before. For example, A(B)(1-B)x(t) = -...
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