Thursday, December 18, 2014

regression - How to compute a Fama-Macbeth R-Squared (R2)?


I'm reaching out regarding the R-Squared of a Fama-Macbeth regression. This is often reported in econometric results but I have yet to find a good explanation of how it is computed.


Specifically, if I consider the second stage of a Fama-Macbeth regression, where we are potentially running hundreds of regressions, how are the R-Squareds of these hundreds of regressions aggregated into a final R-Squared for the entire procedure? I understand that the coefficients are aggregated by a simple averaging, but was unclear about the R-Squareds.


I understand that there are codes to do this, but am trying to understand what's under the hood.


Thanks!


EDIT:



From the Fama-Macbeth regression we specify a model where each return yi,t of portfolio i in time period t can be priced by: yi,t=γ0+γ1β1,i+γ2β2,i++γjβN,i


where N represents the total number of factors.


When calculating the predicted values to calculate our R2, do we take the residuals of each time period or the mean portfolio returns, i.e. are our residuals yi,tˆyi,t (i×t number of resids) or only yiˆyi (i number of resids).




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