Estimating the Continuous Time Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model

Sanford Grossman, Angelo Melino and Robert Shiller

No 1643, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The consumption based asset pricing model predicts that excess yields are determined in a fairly simple way by the market's degree of relative risk aversion and by the pattern of covariances between percapita consumption growth and asset returns. Estimation and testingis complicated by the fact that the model's predictions relate to the instantaneous flow of consumption and point-in-time asset values, but only data on the integral or unit average of the consumption flow is available. In our paper, we show how to estimate the parameters of interest consistently from the available data by maximum likelihood. We estimate the market's degree of relative risk aversion and the instantaneous covariances of asset yields and consumption using six different data sets. We also test the model's overidentifying restrictions.

Date: 1985-06
Note: ME
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Published as Grossman, Sanford J., Angelo Melino and Robert J. Shiller. "Estimating the Continuous-Time Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Model," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 5, No. 3, July 1987, pp. 315-327.

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