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Exact Multivariate Tests of Asset Pricing Models with Stable Asymmetric Distributions

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In this chapter, we propose exact inference procedures for asset pricing models that can be formulated in the framework of a multivariate linear regression (CAPM), allowing for stable error distributions. The normality assumption on the distribution of stock returns is usually rejected in empirical studies, due to excess kurtosis and asymmetry. To model such data, we propose a comprehensive statistical approach which allows for alternative — possibly asymmetric — heavy tailed distributions without the use of large-sample approximations. The methods suggested are based on Monte Carlo test techniques. Goodness-of-fit tests are formally incorporated to ensure that the error distributions considered are empirically sustainable, from which exact confidence sets for the unknown tail area and asymmetry parameters of the stable error distribution are derived. Tests for the efficiency of the market portfolio (zero intercepts) which explicitly allow for the presence of (unknown) nuisance parameter in the stable error distribution are derived. The methods proposed are applied to monthly returns on 12 portfolios of the New York Stock Exchange over the period 1926–1995 (5 year subperiods). We find that stable possibly skewed distributions provide statistically significant improvement in goodness-of-fit and lead to fewer rejections of the efficiency hypothesis.

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Beaulieu, MC., Dufour, JM., Khalaf, L. (2005). Exact Multivariate Tests of Asset Pricing Models with Stable Asymmetric Distributions. In: Breton, M., Ben-Ameur, H. (eds) Numerical Methods in Finance. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25118-9_9

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