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Financial Intermediaries and the Cross-Section of Asset Returns


Tyler Muir


Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance

Tobias Adrian


Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Erkko Etula


affiliation not provided to SSRN

March 14, 2011

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper

Abstract:     
Financial intermediaries trade frequently in many markets using sophisticated models. Their marginal value of wealth should therefore provide a more informative stochastic discount factor (SDF) than that of a representative consumer. Guided by theory, we use shocks to the leverage of securities broker-dealers to construct an intermediary SDF. Intuitively, deteriorating funding conditions are associated with deleveraging and high marginal value of wealth. Our single-factor model prices size, book-to-market, momentum, and bond portfolios with an R2 of 77% and an average annual pricing error of 1% — performing as well as standard multi-factor benchmarks designed to price these assets.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 55

Keywords: cross sectional asset pricing, financial intermediation

JEL Classification: G1, G12, G21

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Date posted: March 23, 2011 ; Last revised: March 28, 2012

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Muir, Tyler, Adrian, Tobias and Etula, Erkko, Financial Intermediaries and the Cross-Section of Asset Returns (March 14, 2011). AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1786061 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1786061

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Tyler Muir (Contact Author)
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance ( email )
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
Tobias Adrian
Federal Reserve Bank of New York ( email )
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045
United States
HOME PAGE: http://nyfedeconomists.org/adrian/
Erkko Etula
affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )
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