Land of addicts? an empirical investigation of habit‐based asset pricing models

The Use of Asset Growth in Empirical Asset Pricing Models∗

We provide evidence that the empirical performance of the new factor models proposed by Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) and Fama and French (2015) depends crucially on how their investment factor is constructed. Specifically, we call attention to the fact that, in both models, the investment factor is based on the measure of growth in total assets from Cooper, Gulen, and Schill (2008) and not on wha...

An Overview of Asset Pricing Models

Empirical Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing∗

I review recent research efforts in the area of empirical cross-sectional asset pricing. I start by summarizing the evidence on cross-sectional return predictability and the failure of standard (consumption) CAPM models and their conditional versions to explain these predictability patterns. One response in part of the recent literature is to focus on adhoc factor models, which summarize the cr...

Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing

Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing

Nonparametric Testing for Anomaly Effects in Empirical Asset Pricing Models

In this paper we propose a class of nonparametric tests for anomaly effects in empirical asset pricing models in the framework of nonparametric panel data models with interactive fixed effects. Our approach has two prominent features: one is the adoption of nonparametric component to capture the anomaly effects of some asset-specific characteristics, and the other is the flexible treatment of b...