Explaining the Poor Performance of Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Models
| Title: | Explaining the Poor Performance of Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Models |
| Author: |
Campbell, John; Cochrane, John
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| Citation: | Campbell, John Y., and John H. Cochrane. 2000. Explaining the poor performance of consumption-based asset pricing models. Journal of Finance 55(6): 2863-2878. |
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| Abstract: | We show that the external habit-formation model economy of Campbell and Cochrane (1999) can explain why the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and its extensions are betterapproximate asset pricing models than is the standard onsumption-based model. The model economy produces time-varying expected eturns, tracked by the dividend–price ratio. Portfolio-based models capture some of this variation in state variables, which a state-independent function of consumption cannot capture. Therefore, though the consumption-based model and CAPM are both perfect conditional asset pricing models, the portfolio-based models are better approximate unconditional asset pricing models. |
| Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0022-1082.00310 |
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