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Testing for Nonstationarity of Market Risk: An Exact Test and Power Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Richard R. Simonds ,
Lynn Roy LaMotte  and
Archer McWhorter Jr
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Abstract

This paper reexamines the issue of common stock market risk stationarity by applying a newly available exact test for random-walk regression coefficients. For each eight-year subperiod tested in the 1951–1974 interval, betas for individual New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks appeared to be nonstationary. The statistical powers of the exact test and of locally most powerful tests are compared to the power of the test employed previously by Sunder. These power considerations are cited to explain the differences between test results obtained here and those reported by Sunder.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 209 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1986

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