Stochastic models play an important role in the analysis of data in many different fields, including finance and insurance. Many models are estimated by procedures that lose their good statistical properties when the underlying model slightly deviates from the assumed one. Robust statistical...

We analyze the discrimination power of well-known model selection criteria when R2 is low as in typical asset return predictability studies. We find that the discrimination power is low in this setup and in particular give another interpretation to the well-cited Bossaerts and Hillion (1999)...