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EXERCISES 77relation. Draw your conclusion based on the 5% significance level. Compare theresults between returns <strong>of</strong> individual stocks and market indexes.6. Consider the monthly log returns <strong>of</strong> CRSP equal-weighted index from January1962 to December 1999 for 456 observations. You may obtain the data fromCRSP directly or from the file “m-ew6299.dat” on the Web.• Build an AR model for the series and check the fitted model.• Build an MA model for the series and check the fitted model.• Compute 1- and 2-step ahead forecasts <strong>of</strong> the AR and MA models built in theprevious two questions.• Compare the fitted AR and MA models.7. Column 3 <strong>of</strong> the file “d-hwp3dx8099.dat” contains the daily log returns <strong>of</strong> theCRSP equal-weighted index from January 1980 to December 1999.• Build an AR model for the series and check the fitted model.• Build an ARMA model for the series and check the fitted model.• Use the fitted AR model to compute 1-step to 7-step ahead forecasts at theforecast origin December 27, 1999 (i.e., h = 5052). Note that for this particularinstance the lag-5 coefficient is statistically significant. This might be dueto the weekend effects.8. Again, consider the daily log return <strong>of</strong> CRSP equal-weighted index from January1980 to December 1999. Create indicator variables for Mondays, Tuesdays,Wednesdays, and Thursdays and use a regression model, possibly withtime series errors, to study the effects <strong>of</strong> trading days on the index return. Whatis the fitted model? Are there serial correlations in the residuals?9. This problem is concerned with the dynamic relationship between the spotand futures prices <strong>of</strong> the S&P500 index. The data file “sp5may.dat” has threecolumns: log(futures price), log(spot price), and cost-<strong>of</strong>-carry (×100). The datawere obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for the S&P 500 stockindex in May 1993 and its June futures contract. The time interval is 1 minute(intraday). Several authors used the data to study index futures arbitrage. Herewe focus on the first two columns. Let f t and s t be the log prices <strong>of</strong> futuresand spot, respectively. Consider y t = f t − f t−1 and x t = s t − s t−1 . Build aregression model with time series errors between {y t } and {x t }, with y t beingthe dependent variable.10. The data file “qunemrate.dat” contains the U.S. quarterly unemployment rate,seasonally adjusted, from 1948 to the second quarter <strong>of</strong> 1991. Consider thechange series y t = x t − x t−1 ,wherex t is the quarterly unemployment rate.

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