Serra, Ricardo Goulart; Martelanc, Roy - In: Brazilian Business Review 10 (2013) 1, pp. 49-78
This paper examines the procedure to estimate betas for firms whose shares are not traded every day. Betas are estimated by three methods: repetition of the last quotation (RUC), tradeto-trade (TT) and Scholes-Williams’ adjustment (SW). There are three return intervals: daily, weekly and...