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Empirical Financial Economics. The Efficient Markets Hypothesis . Stephen J. Brown NYU Stern School of Business 2009 Merton H. Miller Doctoral Seminar. Major developments over last 35 years. Portfolio theory. Major developments over last 35 years. Portfolio theory Asset pricing theory. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Empirical Financial Economics
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Stephen J. BrownNYU Stern School of Business
2009 Merton H. Miller Doctoral Seminar
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theory
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theoryAsset pricing theory
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theoryAsset pricing theoryEfficient Markets Hypothesis
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theoryAsset pricing theoryEfficient Markets HypothesisCorporate finance
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theoryAsset pricing theoryEfficient Markets HypothesisCorporate financeDerivative Securities, Fixed
Income Analysis
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theoryAsset pricing theoryEfficient Markets HypothesisCorporate financeDerivative Securities, Fixed
Income Analysis Market Microstructure
Major developments over last 35 years
Portfolio theoryAsset pricing theoryEfficient Markets HypothesisCorporate financeDerivative Securities, Fixed
Income AnalysisMarket MicrostructureBehavioral Finance
Efficient Markets Hypothesis
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Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Tests of Efficient Markets HypothesisWhat is information?Does the market efficiently process
information?
Estimation of parametersWhat determines the cross section of
expected returns?Does the market efficiently price risk?
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Tests of Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Weak form tests of Efficient Markets Hypothesis Example: trading rule tests
Semi-strong form tests of EMH Example: Event studies
Strong form tests of EMH Example: Insider trading studies (careful about
conditioning!)
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0t t tE r E r r Serial covariance testsVariance Ratio testsMomentum literatureAssumes stationarityNeither necessary nor
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Trading rule tests of EMH
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Trading rule tests of EMH
Timmerman (2007) surveyNaïve models using past sample means
hard to beatRecent financial data is most relevantShort lived episodes of limited
predictability
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Trading rule tests of EMH
Timmerman (2007) surveyNaïve models using past sample means hard
to beatRecent financial data is most relevantShort lived episodes of limited predictability
Predictability is not profitabilityNecessity: Do not consider all possible
patterns of returnsSufficiency: Cannot profit if all markets rise
and fall together
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Trading rule tests of EMH
Timmerman (2007) surveyNaïve models using past sample means hard
to beatRecent financial data is most relevantShort lived episodes of limited predictability
Predictability is not profitabilityNecessity: Do not consider all possible
patterns of returnsSufficiency: Cannot profit if all markets rise
and fall togetherHow can we examine significance of
trading profits?
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An important seminal reference …
Trading Rules: Cowles 1933
Cowles, A., 1933 Can stock market forecasters forecast? Econometrica 1 309-325
William Peter Hamilton’s Track Record 1902-1929 Classify editorials as Sell, Hold or Buy
Novel bootstrap in strategy space
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Trading rule predicting sign of excess returnJanuary 1970 - December 2005
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Trading rule valueS&P500 value
Cowles BootstrapJan 1970-Dec 2005
Annualized excess fund return 2.203%Sharpe ratio of fund 0.063Sharpe ratio of S&P500 0.049
Peseran & Timmermann (1992) p-value 4.83%Cowles bootstrap p-value 6.32%
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Event studies measure the orthogonality condition
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If the residuals are uncorrelated, then the average residual will be asymptotically Normal with expected value equal to the orthogonality condition, provided that the event zt has no market wide impact
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Asset pricing models: GMM paradigm
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Estimating asset pricing models: GMM
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Estimating asset pricing models: Maximum likelihood
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Relationship to GMM: when instruments zt include the predetermined variables Xt-1
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Conclusion
Efficient Market Hypothesis is alive and well
EMH central to recent developments in empirical Finance
EMH highlights importance of appropriate conditioning
in empirical financial research
in practical applications