Citation:
Anatolyev, Stanislav and Alexander Gerko (2005) "A trading approach to testing for predictability", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 455–461
Abstract:
We propose a market timing test for conditional mean independence of financial returns. The new excess predictability (EP) test statistic has an interpretation of a properly normalized return of a certain trading strategy. We discuss similarities of the EP test to the popular directional accuracy (DA) test of Pesaran and Timmermann (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1992). Power properties of the EP test are advantageous, and size properties are comparable to those of the DA test. We illustrate application of the test using weekly data on the S&P500 index.
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Workshop "Econometric Time Series Analysis - Methods and Applications", Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria, September 29 - October 1, 2003 (by Alexander Gerko)
XIV New Economic School research conference, Moscow, Russia, October 9-11, 2003
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