Cattaneo, Matias D.; Crump, Richard K.; Wang, Weining - 2023
Beta-sorted portfolios-portfolios comprised of assets with similar covariation to selected risk factors-are a popular … investigate the properties of beta-sorted portfolio returns by casting the procedure as a two-step nonparametric estimator with a … nonparametric first step and a beta-adaptive portfolios construction. Our framework rationalizes the well-known estimation algorithm …