Asset Pricing at the Millennium

76 Pages Posted: 6 Sep 2000

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John Y. Campbell

Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: May 2000

Abstract

This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work, and on the tradeoff between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor (SDF) that prices all assets in the economy. The behavior of the term structure of real interest rates restricts the conditional mean of the SDF, while patterns of risk premia restrict its conditional volatility and factor structure. Stylized facts about interest rates, aggregate stock prices, and cross-sectional patterns in stock returns have stimulated new research on optimal portfolio choice, intertemporal equilibrium models, and behavioral finance.

JEL Classification: G12

Suggested Citation

Campbell, John Y., Asset Pricing at the Millennium (May 2000). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=236584 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.236584

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