Mean-reversion in closed-end fund discount: evidence from half-life

Philip Inyeob Ji and Sangbae Kim

Applied Economics, 2013, vol. 45, issue 32, 4503-4515

Abstract: This article examines the mean-reversion properties of the discount on UK and US closed-end funds. While the discounts are tested I(1), strong statistical evidence of mean-reversion is ascertained by bias-corrected bootstrap half-life estimates. The estimates also indicate that equity-based funds converge to the steady-state level faster than fixed income funds. In addition, although an equilibrium pricing condition postulates an inverse relation between half-life and the discount size, correlation estimates fail to show strong support for the relation.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.791019

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