Empirical Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models: A Comparison of the SDF and Beta Methods / Ravi Jagannathan, Zhenyu Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jagannathan, Ravi.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wang, Zhenyu.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8098.

NBER working paper series no. w8098

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Empirical Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.

Summary:

The stochastic discount factor (SDF) method provides a unified general framework for econometric analysis of asset pricing models. It has recently been pointed out that the generality of the SDF method may come at the cost of estimation efficiency. We show that there is no need for this concern. The SDF method is as efficient as the classical beta method for estimating risk premia. In addition, the SDF method has an advantage -- the classical beta method, unlike the SDF method, substantially understates the effect of sampling errors when the estimated unanticipated changes in macroeconomic variables are used as pervasive factors.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2001.