Estimating the Continuous Time Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model

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Sanford J. Grossman

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Angelo Melino

University of Toronto

Robert J. Shiller

Yale University - Cowles Foundation; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Yale University - International Center for Finance

Date Written: June 1985

Abstract

The consumption based asset pricing model predicts that excess yields are determined in a fairly simple way by the market's degree of relative risk aversion and by the pattern of covariances between percapita consumption growth and asset returns. Estimation and testingis complicated by the fact that the model's predictions relate to the instantaneous flow of consumption and point-in-time asset values, but only data on the integral or unit average of the consumption flow is available. In our paper, we show how to estimate the parameters of interest consistently from the available data by maximum likelihood. We estimate the market's degree of relative risk aversion and the instantaneous covariances of asset yields and consumption using six different data sets. We also test the model's overidentifying restrictions.

Suggested Citation

Grossman, Sanford J. and Melino, Angelo and Shiller, Robert J., Estimating the Continuous Time Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model (June 1985). NBER Working Paper No. w1643, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1632728

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