Identification and inference in linear stochastic discount factor models with excess returns
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2016-03-01
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© The Author, 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.When excess returns are used to estimate linear stochastic discount factor (SDF) models, researchers often adopt a normalization of the SDF that sets its mean to 1, or one that sets its intercept to 1. These normalizations are often treated as equivalent, but they are subtly different both in population, and in finite samples. Standard asymptotic inference relies on rank conditions that differ across the two normalizations, and which can fail to differing degrees. I first establish that failure of the rank conditions is a genuine concern for many well-known SDF models in the literature. I also describe how failure of the rank conditions can affect inference, both in population and in finite samples. I propose using tests of the rank conditions not only as a diagnostic device, but also for model reduction. I show that this model reduction procedure has desirable properties in a Monte-Carlo experiment with a calibrated model.
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Burnside, AC (2016). Identification and inference in linear stochastic discount factor models with excess returns. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 14(2). pp. 295–330. 10.1093/jjfinec/nbv018 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10441.
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