Biases in Decomposing Holding Period Portfolio Returns
32 Pages Posted: 20 Mar 2006
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Biases in Decomposing Holding Period Portfolio Returns
Biases in Decomposing Holding-Period Portfolio Returns
Date Written: March 2006
Abstract
A growing number of studies in finance decompose multiperiod portfolio returns into series of single period returns, using these to test asset pricing models or market efficiency or to evaluate the returns to investment strategies such as those based on momentum and value-growth. We provide a formal analysis of the decomposition method. Crucially, we argue and present empirical evidence that some methods researchers use involve portfolios that nobody would seriously consider ex ante, that transactions costs associated with such portfolios make them poor investment vehicles, and that they can lead to spurious statistical inferences.
Keywords: Decomposed buy-and-hold portfolio returns, rebalanced portfolio returns
JEL Classification: G14
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