Published November 1983
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On computing mean returns and the small firm premium
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- Roll, Richard
Abstract
The mean return computational method has a substantial effect on the estimated small firm premium. The buy-and-hold method, which best mimics actual investment experience, produces an estimated small-firm premium only one-half as large as the arithmetic and re-balanced methods which are often used in empirical studies. Similar biases can be expected in mean returns when securities are classified by any variable related to trading volume.
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© 1983 Published by Elsevier B.V. Comments and suggestions by Gordon Alexander, Kenneth French, Stephen Ross and the referee, Allan Kleidon, are gratefully acknowledged.Attached Files
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