On the non-stationarity of financial time series: Impact on optimal portfolio selection

Giacomo Livan, Jun Ichi Inoue, Enrico Scalas

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Abstract

We investigate the possible drawbacks of employing the standard Pearson estimator to measure correlation coefficients between financial stocks in the presence of non-stationary behavior, and we provide empirical evidence against the well-established common knowledge that using longer price time series provides better, more accurate, correlation estimates. Then, we investigate the possible consequences of instabilities in empirical correlation coefficient measurements on optimal portfolio selection. We rely on previously published works which provide a framework allowing us to take into account possible risk underestimations due to the non-optimality of the portfolio weights being used in order to distinguish such non-optimality effects from risk underestimations genuinely due to non-stationarities. We interpret such results in terms of instabilities in some spectral properties of portfolio correlation matrices.

Lingua originaleInglese
Numero di articoloP07025
RivistaJournal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Volume2012
Numero di pubblicazione7
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - lug 2012
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