nonparametric_intraday_test: Non-Parametric Intraday Event Study Test

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Non-Parametric Intraday Event Study Test

Description

Implements the non-parametric intraday event study methodology of Rinaudo & Saha (2014). For each event time, cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) on the event day are compared to the empirical distribution of CARs from estimation-period days. Significance is assessed without distributional assumptions.

Usage

nonparametric_intraday_test(
  estimation_window,
  event_window,
  event_times,
  p = 0.05,
  init_window = 5L,
  upper = FALSE
)

Arguments

estimation_window	Data frame with columns day, time, and abnormalReturn containing intraday abnormal returns for multiple estimation days.
event_window	Data frame with columns time and abnormalReturn for the single event day.
event_times	Character vector of intraday times at which events occurred (e.g., c("10:00", "14:30")).
p	Numeric; significance level in (0, 1). Default 0.05.
init_window	Integer; number of initial observations to accumulate before testing significance. Default 5.
upper	Logical; if TRUE test for positive abnormal returns (upper tail), otherwise test for negative abnormal returns (lower tail). Default FALSE.

Value

A named list of tibbles, one per event time. Each tibble contains:

id

Observation index within the significant window.

CAR

Cumulative abnormal return on the event day.

CI

Empirical confidence interval boundary from estimation days.

fitCI

Polynomial-smoothed CI (degree-4 polynomial fit).

When an event time is not significant, returns a single-row tibble with all values equal to zero.

References

Rinaudo, J.B. & Saha, A. (2014). Non-parametric intraday event studies.

See Also

Other eventstudy-tasks: IntradayEventStudyTask, PanelEventStudyTask, SyntheticControlTask, estimate_panel_event_study(), estimate_synthetic_control(), plot_panel_event_study(), plot_synthetic_control(), prepare_intraday_event_study(), sc_placebo_test()

Examples

# Build a small intraday grid: estimation window (multiple days) and a
# single event-day window sharing the same intraday time stamps.
set.seed(1)
times <- sprintf("%02d:%02d", 10L + seq_len(30L) %/% 60L, seq_len(30L) %% 60L)
est_data <- data.frame(
  day            = rep(seq_len(10L), each = 30L),
  time           = rep(times, 10L),
  abnormalReturn = rnorm(300L, 0, 0.001)
)
event_data <- data.frame(
  time           = times,
  abnormalReturn = rnorm(30L, 0, 0.001)
)

results <- nonparametric_intraday_test(
  estimation_window = est_data,
  event_window      = event_data,
  event_times       = times[c(5L, 20L)],
  p                 = 0.05,
  init_window       = 5
)

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