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A linear test for the global minimum variance portfolio for small sample and singular covariance

Bodnar, Taras ; Mazur, Stepan LU and Podgorski, Krzysztof LU (2015) In Working Papers in Statistics
Abstract
Bodnar and Schmid (2008) derived the distribution of the global minimum variance portfolio weights and obtained the distribution of the test statistics for the general linear hypothesis. Their results are obtained in the case when the number of observations n is bigger or equal than the size of portfolio k. In the present paper, we extend the result by analyzing the portfolio weights in a small sample case of

n < k, with the singular covariance matrix. The results are illustrated using actual stock returns. A discussion of practical relevance of the model is presented.
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singular co-variance matrix, singular Wishart distribution, small sample problem, global minimum variance portfolio
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Department of Statistics, Lund university
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