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This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors. Particular emphasis is placed on the verification of essential factors and features for asset returns through model search approaches, in which non-diversifiability and statistical inferences are considered. The discussion reemphasizes the necessity of maintaining a dichotomy between the nondiversifiable pricing kernels and the individual components of stock returns when empirical asset pricing models are of interest. In particular, the model search approach (with this dichotomy emphasized) for empirical model selection of asset pricing is applied to discover the pricing kernels of asset returns.
List of contents
Part I Asset Pricing Models: Discussions and Statistical Inferences.- 1. Asset Pricing Models: Specification, Data and Theoretical Foundation.- 2. Statistical Inferences with Specification Tests.- 3. Statistical Inferences with Model Selection Criteria.- Part II The Alternative Methodology. - 4. Finding Essential Variables in Empirical Asset Pricing Models.- 5. Hypothesis Testing with Model Search.
About the author
Jau-Lian Jeng is Professor of Finance at Azusa Pacific University, USA.
Summary
This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors. Particular emphasis is placed on the verification of essential factors and features for asset returns through model search approaches, in which non-diversifiability and statistical inferences are considered. The discussion reemphasizes the necessity of maintaining a dichotomy between the nondiversifiable pricing kernels and the individual components of stock returns when empirical asset pricing models are of interest. In particular, the model search approach (with this dichotomy emphasized) for empirical model selection of asset pricing is applied to discover the pricing kernels of asset returns.
