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A Markov Model of Heteroskedasticity, Risk, and Learning in the Stock Market / Christopher M. Turner, Richard Startz, Charles R. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Christopher M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2818.
- NBER working paper series no. w2818
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
- Summary:
- Risk premia in the stock market are assumed to move with time varying risk. We present a model in which the variance of time excess return of a portfolio depends on a state variable generated by a first-order Markov process. A model in which the realization of the state is known to economic agents, but unknown to the econometrician. is estimated. The parameter estimates are found to imply that time risk premium declines as time variance of returns rises. We then extend the model to allow agents to be uncertain about time state. Agents make their decisions in period t using a prior distribution of time state based only on past realizations of the excess return through period t-1 plus knowledge of the structure of the model. These parameter estimates from this model are consistent with asset pricing theory.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- 1989.
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