Too good to be true? Fallacies in evaluating risk factor models

This paper is concerned with statistical inference and model evaluation in possibly misspecified and unidentified linear asset pricing models estimated by maximum likelihood. Strikingly, when spurious factors (that is, factors that are uncorrelated with the returns on the test assets) are present, t...

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Main Authors: Gospodinov, N. (Author), Kan, R. (Author), Robotti, C. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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