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Autocorrelation

Also called: serial correlation, autocorrelation function, Durbin-Watson

Autocorrelation is a series being correlated with its own past values. In residuals it signals a misspecified model and understated standard errors. In finance it's also a substantive finding: returns show almost none, which supports weak-form efficiency, while squared returns show a great deal, which is volatility clustering and the reason GARCH models exist.

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