Advances in Consumption-Based Asset Pricing: Empirical Tests

Sydney Ludvigson

Chapter Chapter 12 in Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2013, vol. 2, pp 799-906 from Elsevier

Abstract: The last 15 years has brought forth an explosion of research on consumption-based asset pricing as a leading contender for explaining aggregate stock market behavior. This research has propelled further interest in consumption-based asset pricing, as well as some debate. This chapter surveys the growing body of empirical work that evaluates today’s leading consumption-based asset pricing theories using formal estimation, hypothesis testing, and model comparison. In addition to summarizing the findings and debate, the analysis seeks to provide an accessible description of a few key econometric methodologies for evaluating consumption-based models, with an emphasis on method-of-moments estimators. Finally, the chapter offers a prescription for future econometric work by calling for greater emphasis on methodologies that facilitate the comparison of multiple competing models, all of which are potentially misspecified, while calling for reduced emphasis on individual hypothesis tests of whether a single model is specified without error.

JEL-codes: E21 E44 G11 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-44-459406-8.00012-3

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