• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Incremental Variables and the Investment Opportunity Set
  • Contributor: Fama, Eugene F. [Author]; French, Kenneth R. [Other]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2015]
  • Published in: Chicago Booth Research Paper ; No. 14-35
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2509529
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 1, 2015 erstellt
  • Description: Variables with strong marginal explanatory power in cross-section asset pricing regressions typically show less power to produce increments to average portfolio returns, for two reasons. (i) Adding an explanatory variable can attenuate the slopes in a regression. (ii) Adding a variable with marginal explanatory power always attenuates the values of other explanatory variables in the extremes of the regression's fitted values. Without a restriction on portfolio weights, the maximum Sharpe ratios in the GRS statistic provide little information about an incremental variable's impact on the portfolio opportunity set
  • Access State: Open Access