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Revisiting the duration dependence in the US stock market cycles

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There is a big controversy among both investment professionals and academics regarding how the termination probability of a market state depends on its age. Using more than two centuries of data on the broad US stock market index, we revisit the duration dependence in bull and bear markets. Our results suggest that the duration dependence for both bull and bear markets is a nonlinear function of the state age. It appears that the duration dependence in bear markets is strictly positive. For 93% of the bull markets, the duration dependence is also positive. Only about 7% of the bull markets, those with the longest durations, do not exhibit positive duration dependence. We also compare a few selected theoretical distributions on their ability to describe the duration dependence in bull and bear markets. Our results advocate that the gamma distribution most often provides the best fit for both the survivor and hazard functions of bull and bear markets. However, our results reveal that none of the selected distributions accurately describes the right tail of the hazard functions.

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  • Valeriy Zakamulin, 2023. "Revisiting the duration dependence in the US stock market cycles," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 357-368, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:55:y:2023:i:4:p:357-368
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2089344
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    1. Giner, Javier & Zakamulin, Valeriy, 2023. "A regime-switching model of stock returns with momentum and mean reversion," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 122(C).

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