Skilled Mutual Fund Selection: False Discovery Control under Dependence
有能力共同基金的筛选:依赖结构下的错误发现控制
Selecting skilled mutual funds through the multiple testing framework has received increasing attention from finance researchers and statisticians. The intercept $α$ of Carhart four-factor model is commonly used to measure the true performance of mutual funds, and positive $α$'s are considered as skilled. We observe that the standardized OLS estimates of $α$'s across the funds possess strong dependence and nonnormality structures, indicating that the conventional multiple…