Beta Instability When Interest Rate Levels Change

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Year: 1981
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 375-380

Authors (2)

Bildersee, John S. (not in RePEc) Roberts, Gordon S.

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Boquist, Racette, and Schlarbaum [3] and Livingston [6] show that a security systematic risk may be expressed as a function of its duration. These results have led to research examining the role of duration in explaining systematic risk, but Lanstein and Sharpe [5] indicate that Livingston's expression relies on the implicit assumption that extra-market covariances between securities are insignificant. Lanstein and Sharpe argue that such an assumption is unwarranted. They find a significant negative relationship between extra-market covariances and differences in duration between paired samples of common stock. Their paper suggests that duration may be associated with unsystematic risk and that any relation between duration and systematic risk is more complex than implied in [3] and [6].

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:cup:jfinqa:v:16:y:1981:i:03:p:375-380_00
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29