Since Brazilian data sets for consumption and asset returns are short and the standard GMM-based overidentifying restrictions test has low power in small samples, a GMM approach imposes difficulties to the evaluation of asset pricing kernels better suited to describe asset pricing phenomena in...

This study employs a four-variable vector autoregressive (VAR) model to investigate the relationship of stock returns, inflation, interest rates and real economic activity. The sample consists of four Latin American countries from January of 1995 to December of 2005. Our results indicate...