Estimating asset pricing models with frictions

Kevin Crotty and Alberto Teguia

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 154, issue C, 24-27

Abstract: We jointly quantify the magnitude of risk aversion and transactions costs implied by asset pricing models with trading frictions. With constant relative risk aversion and symmetric transactions costs, estimated transactions costs on Treasury bills are implausibly high, a manifestation of the risk-free rate puzzle. Introducing short-selling costs for Treasury bills offers a resolution of the puzzle. The resulting confidence sets show upper bounds on risk aversion to be at reasonable levels. Short-selling costs for Treasuries are not necessary under recursive preferences.

Keywords: Consumption-based asset pricing; Moment inequalities; Risk aversion; Transactions costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.016

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