{"title":"A Statistical Factor Asset Pricing Model Versus the 4-Factor\u0000 Model","authors":"V. Santana, Alex A. T. Rathke","doi":"10.12660/RBFIN.V16N4.2018.67393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12660/RBFIN.V16N4.2018.67393","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to compare the performance of a statistical factor\u0000 asset pricing model with the Fama-French-Carhart 4-factor model. We perform\u0000 a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to extract latent risk factors using\u0000 data of stocks listed on B3 from 2001 to 2015. We test the abilities of the\u0000 two models to explain assets' returns both in the time-series and in the\u0000 cross-section dimension. We found that the statistical factor models\u0000 generates statistically significant abnormal returns in the time-series\u0000 analysis while the 4-factor model does not. In the cross section dimension,\u0000 neither model generates significant abnormal returns but they also are not\u0000 able to generate positive risk premia. Similar results are found if we\u0000 consider different sets of time and assets. Therefore, although the 4-factor\u0000 model performs slightly better in the set of tests, neither of the models\u0000 can be considered fully adequate to explain expected returns of assets in\u0000 the Brazilian stock market.","PeriodicalId":152637,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Review of Finance","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116798923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}