Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123379 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 14/07
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
We present a regression-based generalization of the calendar time portfolio approach which allowsfor the inclusion of continuous and multivariate investor or firm characteristics in the analysis. Ourmethod is simple to apply and it ensures that the statistical results are heteroscedasticity consistentand robust to very general forms of cross-sectional and temporal dependence. Furthermore, ourregression-based technique also remedies several well-known weaknesses of the traditional calendartime portfolio approach. By considering a new, unique dataset on more than 40,000 Europeanprivate investors, we illustrate empirically that erroneously ignoring cross-sectional dependenceinherent in microeconometric panel data can lead to severely biased statistical results. Moreoverwe use our method to validate some of the most popular hypotheses on the performance of privateinvestors.
Subjects: 
Performance measurement
Robust statistical inference
Cross-sectional dependence
JEL: 
C21
G14
D1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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