[R-SIG-Finance] [R-sig-finance] Rolling Beta

Brian G. Peterson brian at braverock.com
Mon Oct 19 18:27:51 CEST 2009


see PerformanceAnalytics functions

CAPM.beta
and
chart.RollingRegression
and
charts.RollingRegression

Cheers,

  - Brian

ehxpieterse wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I have had a *very* rough attempt at estimating the beta between indices. I
> am convinced that someone on this list has had experience with this before,
> but my search yielded little information. I have daily log returns from
> 01/01/2000 on 13 different equity indices. I am just looking for an
> efficient way to produce a rolling beta for all index pairs.
>
> I would appreciate any advice.
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>
> CODE:
>
> IndexLocal <- read.csv("IndexLocal.csv", header=TRUE, sep = ",")
> MyLag <- 30
> IndexDim <- dim(IndexLocal)
> Results <- NULL
> reg <- NULL
> k <- 0
>
> for (i in 2:14)
> {
> 	for (j in 2:14)
> 	{
> 			k <- k + 1
> 			for (r in MyLag :IndexDim[1])
> 			{
> 				x. <- IndexLocal[(r-MyLag+1):r,i]
> 				y. <- IndexLocal[(r-MyLag+1):r,j]				
> 				glm.linear<-coef(glm(y. ~ x.))
> 				reg[r] <- glm.linear[2]
> 			}
> 				if (j >= i)
> 				{
> 					Results <- cbind(Results,reg)
> 				}
> 	}
> }
>
>
>   


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