Young, H Peyton; Foster, Dean P.; Stine, Robert - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
Alpha is the amount by which the returns from a given asset exceed the returns from the wider market. The standard way … of estimating alpha is to correct for correlation with the market by regressing the asset's returns against the market … alpha based on the Markov inequality. Since it is based on the compound value of the estimated excess returns, we call it …