Estimating the Continuous Time Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model / Sanford J. Grossman, Angelo Melino, Robert J. Shiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, Sanford J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Melino, Angelo.

Shiller, Robert J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w1643.

NBER working paper series no. w1643

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1985.

Summary:

The consumption based asset pricing model predicts that excess yields are determined in a fairly simple way by the market's degree of relative risk aversion and by the pattern of covariances between percapita consumption growth and asset returns. Estimation and testingis complicated by the fact that the model's predictions relate to the instantaneous flow of consumption and point-in-time asset values, but only data on the integral or unit average of the consumption flow is available. In our paper, we show how to estimate the parameters of interest consistently from the available data by maximum likelihood. We estimate the market's degree of relative risk aversion and the instantaneous covariances of asset yields and consumption using six different data sets. We also test the model's overidentifying restrictions.

Notes:

Print version record

June 1985.