Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101009 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2005-13
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
The risk premia assigned to economic (nontraded) risk factors can be decomposed into three parts: (i) the risk premia on maximum-correlation portfolios mimicking the factors; (ii) (minus) the covariance between the nontraded components of the candidate pricing kernel of a given model and the factors; and (iii) (minus) the mispricing assigned by the candidate pricing kernel to the maximum-correlation mimicking portfolios. The first component is the same across asset-pricing models and is typically estimated with little (absolute) bias and high precision. The second component, on the other hand, is essentially arbitrary and can be estimated with large (absolute) biases and low precisions by multi-beta models with nontraded factors. This second component is also sensitive to the criterion minimized in estimation. The third component is estimated reasonably well, both for models with traded and nontraded factors. We conclude that the economic risk premia assigned by multi-beta models with nontraded factors can be very unreliable. Conversely, the risk premia on maximum-correlation portfolios provide more reliable indications of whether a nontraded risk factor is priced. These results hold for both the constant and the time-varying components of the factor risk premia.
Subjects: 
economic risk premium
asset-pricing models
mispricing
maximum-correlation mimicking portfolios
nontraded factors
JEL: 
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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