Marie-Claude Beaulieu , Jean-Marie Dufour , Lynda Khalaf
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Abstract
This paper proposes exact identification-robust confidence sets for the zero-beta rate and ex-post factor prices in asset pricing models. Exploiting the information from the cross-sectional intercept allows us to impose or formally test model-consistent restrictions, including those resulting from traded factors in excess of the zero beta-rate or from return spreads. Analytical projection-based solutions for confidence set outcomes are developed. The proposed procedures are extended to the case of missing factors. Empirical and simulation results with traded and non-traded factors show that model-consistent restrictions and elusive factors can materially affect model fit, identification, inference and temporal constancy of pricing influence.
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The Journal of Econometrics serves as an outlet for important, high quality, new research in both theoretical and applied econometrics. The scope of the Journal includes papers dealing with identification, estimation, testing, decision, and prediction issues encountered in economic research. Classical Bayesian statistics, and machine learning methods, are decidedly within the range of the Journal''s interests. The Annals of Econometrics is a supplement to the Journal of Econometrics.