Abstract
A nonlinear model of asset returns allowing for multiple shocks is specified. The nonlinear features of the model are demonstrated graphically using a 3-dimensional diagram referred to as the mean impact surface. A new class of nonlinearity tests is also developed which is compared with existing testing methodologies. Applying the framework using excess returns on US and world equities the empirical results provide strong statistical evidence that domestic and foreign shocks have nonlinear effects on expected returns in the US with the effects being determined by the sign and the size of shocks. In contrast, the effects on world expected returns from shocks in the US and the world are found to react more smoothly. The empirical nonlinearities identified are also shown to be robust to alternative choices of risk factors and distributional assumptions.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank the editor and two anonymous referees for their extremely helpful comments and suggestions.
Appendix
A Derivations of the MIS statistics
Let the conditional means of the asset excess returns μit+1 and μjt+1, be given by
where the variables are defined in Section 2 and the conditional variances
and assuming bivariate conditional normality, the joint conditional distribution of (rit+1, rjt+1), is
where It represents the information set conditional on information at t and
To construct a general test of nonlinearity for each of the excess returns, consider rit+1. Under the null hypothesis the mean impact surface of μit+1, is flat with respect to the shocks in the system, this implies the following restrictions on the rit+1 equation
To derive the nonlinearity test for rit+1, the first order derivatives of the log-likelihood in (29) with respect to the conditional mean parameters in μit+1 of equation (26), are
Evaluating the derivatives of the log-likelihood function under the null hypothesis in (30), and rearranging terms gives
To generate a test statistic for rit+1 that is straightforward to implement which does not require estimating a separate model for rjt+1, two simplifying assumptions are made. The first is that the first order conditions evaluated at H0 are approximated at ρt+1 = 0. The second is that the conditional variances
B Additional simulation results
B.1 Simulated size distributions for Experiments A to E
B.2 Simulated power functions for Experiments A to E
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