{"title":"A simple test of misspecification for linear asset pricing models","authors":"Antoine Giannetti","doi":"10.1007/s11408-024-00445-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>A fundamental implication of asset pricing theory is that investors must earn risk-premiums for bearing exposure to systematic risk. The two-pass cross-sectional regression is a popular approach for risk-premium estimation. The empirical literature has found that this approach often delivers estimates that significantly differ from their time-series counterparts. The paper explores a test of model misspecification that exploits the difference between cross-sectional and time-series risk-premium estimates. The suggested approach complements traditional misspecification tests and may be applied as an alternative to the deployment of misspecification-robust standard errors to test risk-premium significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-024-00445-6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A fundamental implication of asset pricing theory is that investors must earn risk-premiums for bearing exposure to systematic risk. The two-pass cross-sectional regression is a popular approach for risk-premium estimation. The empirical literature has found that this approach often delivers estimates that significantly differ from their time-series counterparts. The paper explores a test of model misspecification that exploits the difference between cross-sectional and time-series risk-premium estimates. The suggested approach complements traditional misspecification tests and may be applied as an alternative to the deployment of misspecification-robust standard errors to test risk-premium significance.
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