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On the Damodaran Estimator of Price Adjustment Coefficients

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This paper investigates the properties of the Damodaran (Journal of Finance, 1993) estimator of price adjustment. It is concluded that strong bias and low precision of the Damodaran estimator renders it useless for empirical work, even when the available sample size is very large. As an alternative, a GMM-based estimator is derived. Its properties are significantly better than those of the Damodaran estimator. However, for empirical applications it is still preferable to estimate price adjustment speeds using concurrent information from related time series.

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  • Säfvenblad, Patrik, 1997. "On the Damodaran Estimator of Price Adjustment Coefficients," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 208, Stockholm School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Informational efficiency; price adjustment; GMM estimation; power test; simulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C15 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Statistical Simulation Methods: General
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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