Abstract
We evaluate the performance of unconditional and conditional versions of seven stochastic discount factor models in UK stock returns between January 1975 and December 2001. We find that the conditional four-moment capital asset pricing model (CAPM) has the best performance among the models we consider in terms of the lowest [Hansen, L.P., Jagannathan, R., 1997. Assessing specification errors in stochastic discount factor models. Journal of Finance 52, 591-607] distance measure and explaining the time-series predictability of industry portfolio excess returns. Conditional models also do a better job than unconditional models. However we find that the superior performance of the conditional four-moment CAPM, and conditional models in general, arises in part due to overfitting the data.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2995-3014 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journal of Banking and Finance |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2005 |
Keywords
- CAPM
- UK
- stock returns
- capital asset pricing model