Dependence of Stock Returns in Bull and Bear Markets

Despite of its many shortcomings, Pearson’s rho is often used as an association measure for stock returns. A conditional version of Spearman’s rho is suggested as an alternative measure of association. This approach is purely nonparametric and avoids any kind of model misspecification. We derive hyp...

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Main Authors: Dobric Jadran, Frahm Gabriel, Schmid Friedrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2013-01-01
Series:Dependence Modeling
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/demo-2013-0005