Published in:FRB of New York Staff Report ; No. 493
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (55 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1837531
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 8, 2014 erstellt
Description:
We propose regression-based estimators for beta representations of dynamic asset pricing models with an affine pricing kernel specification. We allow for state variables that are cross-sectional pricing factors, forecasting variables for the price of risk, and factors that are both. The estimators explicitly allow for time-varying prices of risk, time-varying betas, and serially dependent pricing factors. Our approach nests the Fama-MacBeth two-pass estimator as a special case. We provide asymptotic multistage standard errors necessary to conduct inference for asset pricing test. We illustrate our new estimators in an application to the joint pricing of stocks and bonds. The application features strongly time-varying, highly significant prices of risks that are found to be quantitatively more important than time-varying betas in reducing pricing errors