Learning About Beta: Time-Varying Factor Loadings, Expected Returns, and the Conditional CAPM
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report No. 193
48 Pages Posted: 9 Apr 2003 Last revised: 14 Oct 2008
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Learning About Beta: Time-Varying Factor Loadings, Expected Returns, and the Conditional CAPM
Learning about Beta: Time-Varying Factor Loadings, Expected Returns, and the Conditional CAPM
Date Written: October 8, 2008
Abstract
We complement the conditional CAPM by introducing unobservable long-run changes in risk factor loadings. In this environment, investors rationally 'learn' the long-level of factor loadings from the observation of realized returns. As a direct consequence of this assumption, conditional betas are modeled using the Kalman filter. Because of its focus on low frequency variation in betas, our approach circumvents recent criticisms of the conditional CAPM. When tested on portfolios sorted by size and book-to-market, our learning-augmented conditional CAPM fails to be rejected.
Keywords: Asset Pricing, Bayesian Learning, CAPM Anomalies
JEL Classification: G12, C11
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