The "Out of Sample" Performance of Long-Run Risk Models

58 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2012 Last revised: 9 Apr 2023

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Wayne E. Ferson

University of Southern California; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Suresh Nallareddy

University of Washington - Foster School of Business

Biqin Xie

Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Date Written: February 2012

Abstract

This paper studies the ability of long-run risk models to explain out-of-sample asset returns during 1931-2009. The long-run risk models perform relatively well on the momentum effect. A cointegrated version of the model outperforms the classical, stationary version. Both the long-run and the short run consumption shocks in the models are empirically important for the models' performance. The models' average pricing errors are especially small in the decades from the 1950s to the 1990s. When we restrict the risk premiums to identify structural parameters, this results in larger average pricing errors but often smaller error variances. The mean squared errors are not substantially better than those of the classical CAPM, except for Momentum.

Suggested Citation

Ferson, Wayne E. and Nallareddy, Suresh and Xie, Biqin, The "Out of Sample" Performance of Long-Run Risk Models (February 2012). NBER Working Paper No. w17848, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2007841

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