Laurinaityte, Nora; Meinerding, Christoph; Schlag, Christian - 2020 - This version: November 4, 2020
Cross-sectional asset pricing tests with GMM can generate spuriouslyhigh explanatory power for factor models when the moment conditions are specifiedsuch that they allow the estimated factor means to substantially deviate from theobserved sample averages. In fact, by shifting the weights on the...