Systematic risk estimation in symmetric models

Gilberto Paula and Francisco Jose Cysneiros

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 2, 217-221

Abstract: The aim of this article is to discuss the estimation of the systematic risk in capital asset pricing models with heavy-tailed error distributions to explain the asset returns. Diagnostic methods for assessing departures from the model assumptions as well as the influence of observations on the parameter estimates are also presented. It may be shown that outlying observations are down weighted in the maximum likelihood equations of linear models with heavy-tailed error distributions, such as Student-t, power exponential, logistic II, so on. This robustness aspect may also be extended to influential observations. An application in which the systematic risk estimate of Microsoft is compared under normal and heavy-tailed errors is presented for illustration.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850601018239

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