Is the risk aversion parameter in the simple intertemporal consumption CAPM “small” as in Hansen and Singleton (1982,1983), or is it that its reciprocal, the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, is small, as in Hall (1988)? This paper attributes the disparate estimates of this...

High dimensional covariance matrix estimation is considered in the context of empirical asset pricing. In order to see the effects of covariance matrix estimation on asset pricing, parameter estimation, model specification test, and misspecification problems are explored. Along with existing...

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This thesis examines the impact of exchange rate risk on asset pricing under varying market structures. To understand this effect, in the first part of the thesis the analytical derivation of an international asset-pricing model within a mean-variance framework is attempted. In the second part,...