Multifactor Consumption Based Asset Pricing Models Using the US Stock Market as a Reference

Download or read book Multifactor Consumption Based Asset Pricing Models Using the US Stock Market as a Reference written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we extend the time series analysis to the panel frame-work to test the C-CAPM driven by wealth references for developed countries. Speciጿically, we focus on a linearised form of the Consumption-based CAPM in a pooled cross section panel model with two-way error components. The empirical fiijndings of this two-factor model with various speciጿications all indicate that there is signiጿicant unobserved heterogeneity captured by cross-country ጿixed effects when consumption growth is treated as a common factor, of which the average risk aversion coefficient is 4.285. However, the cross-sectional impact of home consumption growth varies dramatically over the countries, where unobserved heterogeneity of risk aversion can also be addressed by random effects.