The mosaic permutation test: an exact and nonparametric goodness-of-fit test for factor models
马赛克置换检验:因子模型的精确非参数拟合优度检验
Financial firms often rely on fundamental factor models to explain correlations among asset returns and manage risk. Yet after major events, e.g., COVID-19, analysts may reassess whether existing risk models continue to fit well: specifically, after accounting for a set of known factor exposures, are the residuals of the asset returns independent? With this motivation, we introduce the mosaic permutation test, a nonparametric goodness-of-fit test for preexisting factor…