Asset Pricing with and without Garbage: The Overlooked Triple-Hypothesis Problem

Stefanos Delikouras and George Korniotis

No 16958, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Testing consumption-based asset pricing models is a triple hypothesis, which requires selecting the consumption data and examining the assumptions for investor preferences and consumption dynamics. We formalize the triple-hypothesis problem within a GMM framework that relaxes the CRRA assumption, jointly estimates consumption dynamics with Euler equations, and includes the risk-free rate variance as a target moment. We find that consumption measures proposed as alternatives to the BEA consumption (e.g., garbage) do not address the shortcomings of the canonical CRRA model with i.i.d. consumption growth. Instead, a model with BEA consumption, Epstein-Zin preferences, and non-i.i.d. consumption dynamics performs equally well.

Keywords: Cross-section of expected returns; Epstein-zin preferences; Risk-free rate; Gmm; Consumption growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D51 D91 E21 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-05
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP16958 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:16958

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP16958
orders@cepr.org

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by (repec@cepr.org).