beta coefficient

Properties of the beta coefficient of the global minimum variance portfolio

The paper is devoted to the investigation of statistical properties of the sample estimator of the beta coefficient in the case when the weights of benchmark portfolio are constant and for the target portfolio, the global minimum variance portfolio is taken.  We provide the asymptotic distribution of the sample estimator of the beta coefficient assuming that the asset returns are multivariate normally distributed.  Based on the asymptotic distribution we construct the confidence interval for the beta coefficient.  We use the daily returns on the assets included in the DAX index for the peri