Tests of asset pricing with time‐varying factor loads

Cross Sectional Asset Pricing Tests

Consumption-Based Asset Pricing with Recursive Utility

In this paper it has been attempted to investigate the capability of the consumption-based capital asset pricing model (CCAPM), using the general method of moment (GMM), with regard to the Epstien-zin recursive preferences model for Iran's capital market. Generally speaking, recursive utility permits disentangling of the two psychologically separate concepts of risk aversion and elasticity of i...

Asset Pricing Tests Using Realized Returns

Results from two-stage (cross-sectional) asset pricing tests vary with first-stage design choices and the test assets employed. First, I argue that time-varying loadings have higher construct validity as explanatory variables for the current expected return in that they do not contain future information and more accurately describe the timevarying risk of the firm. Second, I introduce randomly ...

Finite sample multivariate tests of asset pricing models with coskewness

Exact inference methods are proposed for asset pricing models with unobservable risk-free rates and coskewness; specifically, the Quadratic Market Model (QMM) which incorporates the effect of asymmetry of return distribution on asset valuation. In this context, exact tests are appealing given (i) the increasing popularity of such models in finance, (ii) the fact that traditional market models (...

Asset Pricing Tests Using Random Portfolios

Results from two-stage asset pricing tests vary with first-stage design choices and test assets. First, I argue that time-varying betas have higher construct validity than constant loadings as they are not conditional on future (returns) information and more accurately capture time-varying expected returns. Second, randomly generated portfolios as test assets yield, in contrast to the systemati...