Advances in consumption-based asset pricing
Subtitle: empirical tests
By: Sydney C. Ludvigson
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16810; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16810.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The last 15 years has brought forth an explosion of research on consumption-based asset pricing as a leading contender for explaining aggregate stock market behavior.  This research has propelled further interest in consumption-based asset pricing, as well as some debate.  This chapter surveys the growing body of empirical work that evaluates today's leading consumption-based asset pricing theories using formal estimation, hypothesis testing, and model comparison.  In addition to summarizing the findings and debate, the analysis seeks to provide an accessible description of a few key econometric methodologies for evaluating consumption-based models, with an emphasis on method-of-moments estimators.  Finally, the chapter offers a prescription for future econometric work by calling for greater emphasis on methodologies that facilitate the comparison of multiple competing models, all of which are potentially misspecified, while calling for reduced emphasis on individual hypothesis tests of whether a single model is specified without error"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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