Multivariate tests of asset pricing: simulation evidence from an emerging market

Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models: An Emerging Market Perspective

The CAPM as the benchmark asset pricing model generally performs poorly in both developed and emerging markets. We investigate whether allowing the model parameters to vary improves the performance of the CAPM and the Fama-French model. Conditional asset pricing models scaled by conditional variables such as Trading Volume and Dividend Yield generally result in small pricing errors. However, a ...

Finite sample multivariate tests of asset pricing models with coskewness

Exact inference methods are proposed for asset pricing models with unobservable risk-free rates and coskewness; specifically, the Quadratic Market Model (QMM) which incorporates the effect of asymmetry of return distribution on asset valuation. In this context, exact tests are appealing given (i) the increasing popularity of such models in finance, (ii) the fact that traditional market models (...

Are Accruals Really Mispriced? Evidence from Tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model

This paper examines the anomaly, first reported by Sloan (1996), that the market misprices stocks of firms with extreme (high or low) accruals. The paper proposes a four-factor ICAPM, based on Campbell and Vuolteenaho (2004) and Fama and French (1993), and tests the model using a two-pass cross-sectional regression. Two principal findings are reported. First, the model successfully prices the c...

Asset Pricing in Emerging Markets

Emerging markets provide a formidable challenge to current asset pricing theory. The reason that emerging market do not obey standard asset pricing paradigms can be traced to the lack of complete market integration of many of these markets. Importantly, to understand both the cross-section of expected returns as well as the evolution of expected returns through time in these markets, it is nece...

Cross Sectional Asset Pricing Tests