Three concepts: stochastic discount factors, multi-beta pricing and mean-variance efficiency, are at the core of modern empirical asset pricing. This chapter reviews these paradigms and the relations among them, concentrating on conditional asset-pricing models where lagged variables serve as...

The decline in macroeconomic volatility from the 1980s to the onset of the Great Recession did not, in general, translate into more microeconomic stability. While microeconomic volatility can reflect growth-generating processes, such as creative destruction and re-allocation of resources,...

Der Autor analysiert die theoretische und empirische Preisbeziehung zwischen fixen Aktienindexterminkontrakten auf den gleichen Kontraktgegenstand (DAX) mit unterschiedlicher Fälligkeit. Die Untersuchung dieser Beziehung ist von der empirischen Kapitalmarktforschung bislang mit Hinweis auf die...