Nonstandard errors

Menkveld, A. J. et al. (2024) Nonstandard errors. Journal of Finance, (doi: 10.1111/jofi.13337) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation across researchers adds uncertainty—nonstandard errors (NSEs). We study NSEs by letting 164 teams test the same hypotheses on the same data. NSEs turn out to be sizable, but smaller for more reproducible or higher rated research. Adding peer-review stages reduces NSEs. We further find that this type of uncertainty is underestimated by participants.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: The coordinators are grateful for financial support from (Dreber) the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Marianne, Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, the Jan Wallander, Tom Hedelius Foundation, (Huber) an FWF grant P29362, (Huber and Kirchler) FWF SFB F63, (Johannesson) Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grant P21-0168, and (Menkveld) NWO-Vici. Authors at Gothenburg University, Lund University, and Stockholm University gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Swedish House of Finance.
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Gucbilmez, Dr Ufuk
• Authors: Menkveld, A. J., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Neususs, S., Razen, M., Weitzel, U., Abad-Diaz, D., Abudy, M. (M.), Adrian, T., Ait-Sahalia, Y., Akmansoy, O., Alcock, J. T., Alexeev, V., Aloosh, A., Amato, L., Amaya, D., Angel, J. J., Avetikian, A. T., Bach, A., Baidoo, E., Bakalli, G., Bao, L., Barbon, A., Bashchenko, O., Bindra, P. C., Bjonnes, G. H., Black, J. R., Black, B. S., Bogoev, D., Correa, S. B., Bondarenko, O., Bos, C. S., Bosch-Rosa, C., Bouri, E., Brownlees, C., Calamia, A., Cao, V. N., Capelle-Blancard, G., Romero, L. M. C., Caporin, M., Carrion, A., Caskurlu, T., Chakrabarty, B., Chen, J., Chernov, M., Cheung, W., Chincarini, L. B., Chordia, T., Chow, S.-C., Clapham, B., Colliard, J.-E., Comerton-Forde, C., Curran, E., Dao, T., Dare, W., Davies, R. J., Blasis, R. D., Nard, G. F. D., Declerck, F., Deev, O., Degryse, H., Deku, S. Y., Desagre, C., Dijk, M. A. V., Dim, C., Dimpfl, T., Dong, Y. J., Drummond, P. A., Dudda, T., Duevski, T., Dumitrescu, A., Dyakov, T., Dyhrberg, A. H., Dzielinski, M. L., Eksi, A., Kalak, I. E., Ellen, S. T., Eugster, N., Evans, M. D. D., Farrell, M., Felez-Vinas, E., Ferrara, G., Ferrouhi, E. M., Flori, A., Fluharty-Jaidee, J. T., Foley, S. D. V., Fong, K. Y. L., Foucault, T., Franus, T., Franzoni, F., Frijns, B., Frommel, M., Fu, S. M., Fullbrunn, S. C., Gan, B., Gao, G., Gehrig, T. P., Gemayel, R., Gerritsen, D., Gil-Bazo, J., Gilder, D., Glosten, L. R., Gomez, T., Gorbenko, A., Grammig, J., Gregoire, V., Gucbilmez, U., Hagstromer, B., Hambuckers, J., Hapnes, E., Harris, J. H., Harris, L., Hartmann, S., Hasse, J.-B., Hautsch, N., He, X.-Z. (T.), Heath, D., Hediger, S., Hendershott, T., Hibbert, A. M., Hjalmarsson, E., Hoelscher, S. A., Hoffmann, P., Holden, C. W., Horenstein, A. R., Huang, W., Huang, D., Hurlin, C., Ilczuk, K., Ivashchenko, A., Iyer, S. R., Jahanshahloo, H., Jalkh, N., Jones, C. M., Jurkatis, S., Jylha, P., Kaeck, A. T., Kaiser, G., Karam, A., Karmaziene, E., Kassner, B., Kaustia, M., Kazak, E., Kearney, F., Kervel, V. V., Khan, S. A., Khomyn, M. K., Klein, T., Klein, O., Klos, A., Koetter, M., Kolokolov, A., Korajczyk, R. A., Kozhan, R., Krahnen, J. P., Kuhle, P., Kwan, A., Lajaunie, Q., Lam, F. Y. E. C., Lambert, M., Langlois, H., Lausen, J., Lauter, T., Leippold, M., Levin, V., Li, Y., Li, H., Liew, C. Y., Lindner, T., Linton, O., Liu, J., Liu, A., Llorente, G., Lof, M., Lohr, A., Longstaff, F., Lopez-Lira, A., Mankad, S., Mano, N., Marchal, A., Martineau, C., Mazzola, F., Meloso, D., Mi, M. G., Mihet, R., Mohan, V., Moinas, S., Moore, D., Mu, L., Muravyev, D., Murphy, D., Neszveda, G., Neumeier, C., Nielsson, U., Nimalendran, M., Nolte, S., Norden, L. L., O’neill, P., Obaid, K., Odegaard, B. A., Ostberg, P., Pagnotta, E., Painter, M., Palan, S., Palit, I. J., Park, A., Pascual, R., Pasquariello, P., Pastor, L., Patel, V., Patton, A. J., Pearson, N. D., Pelizzon, L., Pelli, M., Pelster, M., Perignon, C., Pfiffer, C., Philip, R., Plihal, T., Prakash, P., Press, O.-A., Prodromou, T., Prokopczuk, M., Putnins, T., Qian, Y., Raizada, G., Rakowski, D., Ranaldo, A., Regis, L., Reitz, S., Renault, T., Renjie, R. W., Reno, R., Riddiough, S. J., Rinne, K., Rintamaki, P., Riordan, R., Rittmannsberger, T., Longarela, I. R., Roesch, D., Rognone, L., Roseman, B., Rosu, I., Roy, S., Rudolf, N., Rush, S. R., Rzayev, K., Rzeznik, A. A., Sanford, A., Sankaran, H., Sarkar, A., Sarno, L., Scaillet, O., Scharnowski, S., Schenk-Hoppe, K. R., Schertler, A., Schneider, M., Schroeder, F., Schurhoff, N., Schuster, P., Schwarz, M. A., Seasholes, M. S., Seeger, N. J., Shachar, O., Shkilko, A., Shui, J., Sikic, M., Simion, G., Smales, L. A., Soderlind, P., Sojli, E., Sokolov, K., Sonksen, J., Spokeviciute, L., Stefanova, D., Subrahmanyam, M. G., Szaszi, B., Talavera, O., Tang, Y., Taylor, N., Tham, W. W., Theissen, E., Thimme, J., Tonks, I., Tran, H., Trapin, L., Trolle, A. B., Vaduva, M. A., Valente, G., Ness, R. A. V., Vasquez, A., Verousis, T., Verwijmeren, P., Vilhelmsson, A., Vilkov, G., Vladimirov, V., Vogel, S., Voigt, S., Wagner, W., Walther, T., Weiss, P., Wel, M. V. D., Werner, I. M., Westerholm, P. J., Westheide, C., Wika, H. C., Wipplinger, E., Wolf, M., Wolff, C. C. P., Wolk, L., Wong, W.-K., Wrampelmeyer, J., Wu, Z.-X., Xia, S., Xiu, D., Xu, K., Xu, C., Yadav, P. K., Yague, J., Yan, C., Yang, A., Yoo, W., Yu, W., Yu, Y., Yu, S., Yueshen, B. Z., Yuferova, D., Zamojski, M., Zareei, A., Zeisberger, S. M., Zhang, L., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhao, L., Zhong, Z., Zhou, Z. I., Zhou, C., Zhu, X. S., Zoican, M., and Zwinkels, R.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Accounting and Finance
• Journal Name: Journal of Finance
• Publisher: Wiley
• ISSN: 0022-1082
• ISSN (Online): 1540-6261
• Published Online: 17 April 2024
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2024 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Journal of Finance 2024
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