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Erschienen in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 2/2015

01.02.2015 | Original Research

On the use of the market model R-square as a measure of stock price efficiency

verfasst von: Riccardo Bramante, Giovanni Petrella, Diego Zappa

Erschienen in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | Ausgabe 2/2015

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Abstract

The R-square of the market model is a very popular measure of stock price efficiency. However, its interpretation is far from being unambiguous. Some scholars argue that the R-square is a direct measure of efficiency, others argue that the R-square is an indirect measure of efficiency. This paper contributes to the literature in two ways. First, we model the relationship between the market model R-square and the delay in the price discovery process and, second, we find that the correlation between R-square and delay is consistently negative. We conclude that the R-square is a direct measure of price efficiency.

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Fußnoten
1
In the literature several authors (e.g., Hou and Moskowitz 2005) use the normalized definition of \(delay\equiv \delta^{*} = 1 - \frac{{R^{2} }}{{R_{U}^{2} }}\). Previous conclusions do not change.
 
2
We point out that the aim of this paper is not to test whether the delay is significant. Nevertheless we have computed for all the stocks the p value of the hypothesis.
$$H_{0} : \beta_{1}^{U} = \beta_{2}^{U} = 0$$
By ANOVA and assuming the error component of models (1) and (2) normally distributed, the equivalent test statistics is \(\frac{{(R_{U}^{2} - R^{2} )/2}}{{(1 - R^{2} )/(n - 2)}}\sim F_{2,n - 2}\), where \(F_{2,n - 2}\) is the Fisher distribution with 2 and n − 2 degrees of freedom (d.f.). As expected, in almost all the cases the test was not significant.
 
3
We set B = 10,000.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
On the use of the market model R-square as a measure of stock price efficiency
verfasst von
Riccardo Bramante
Giovanni Petrella
Diego Zappa
Publikationsdatum
01.02.2015
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting / Ausgabe 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0924-865X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7179
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-013-0410-8

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