Arbitrage Bounds and the Time Series Properties of the Discount on UK Closed-End Mutual Funds

Laurence Copeland ()

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Abstract: In a dataset of weekly observations over the period since 1990, the discount on UK closed-end mutual funds is shown to be nonstationary, but reverting to a nonzero long run mean. Although the long run discount could be explained by factors like management expenses etc., its short run ‡uctuations are harder to reconcile with an arbitrage-free equilibrium. In time series terms, they appear to exhibit heavily nonlinear behaviour, perhaps best represented by an Exponential Smooth- Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR) model.

Keywords: closed-end mutual funds; ESTAR; stationarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-04-07
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 48

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Working Paper: Arbitrage Bounds and the Time Series Properties of the Discount on UK Closed-End Mutual Funds (2006)
Journal Article: Arbitrage Bounds and the Time Series Properties of the Discount on UK Closed-End Mutual Funds (2007-01)
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