CAPM Over the Long Run: 1926-2001 /

A conditional one-factor model can account for the spread in the average returns of portfolios sorted by book-to-market ratios over the long run from 1926-2001. In contrast, earlier studies document strong evidence of a book-to-market effect using OLS regressions in the post-1963 sample. However, th...

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CAPM Over the Long Run
Main Author:
Ang, Andrew
Corporate Author:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Other Authors:
Chen, Joseph
Format:
Electronic eBook
Language:
English
Published:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
Summary:
A conditional one-factor model can account for the spread in the average returns of portfolios sorted by book-to-market ratios over the long run from 1926-2001. In contrast, earlier studies document strong evidence of a book-to-market effect using OLS regressions in the post-1963 sample. However, the betas of portfolios sorted by book-to-market ratios vary over time and in the presence of time-varying factor loadings, OLS inference produces inconsistent estimates of conditional alphas and betas. We show that under a conditional CAPM with time-varying betas, predictable market risk premia, and stochastic systematic volatility, there is little evidence that the conditional alpha for a book-to-market trading strategy is statistically different from zero.
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1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Notes:
December 2005.
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