A Unified Approach to Testing for Serial Correlation in Stock Returns

Journal of Business, Vol 67, No 3, July 1994

Posted: 1 Jan 1999

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Matthew P. Richardson

Department of Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Tom Smith

University of Queensland - Faculty of Business, Economics and Law; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Abstract

This article provides a unified approach for testing serial correlation in stock returns. We describe a general class of statistics which are linear combinations of consistent estimators of autocorrelations. As special cases, we show that this class captures many of the statistics studied in the recent finance and macroeconomics literature. Using this result, we then provide a common perspective on the asymptotic distribution and power of these statistics.

JEL Classification: C13, G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Richardson, Matthew P. and Smith, Tom M., A Unified Approach to Testing for Serial Correlation in Stock Returns. Journal of Business, Vol 67, No 3, July 1994, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5386

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Tom M. Smith

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