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The Conditional CAPM Does Not Explain Asset-pricing Anomalies

Recent studies suggest that the conditional CAPM might hold, period-by-period, and that time-varying betas can explain the failures of the simple, unconditional CAPM. We argue, however, that significant departures from the unconditional CAPM would require implausibly large time-variation in betas and expected returns. Thus, the conditional CAPM is unlikely to explain asset-pricing anomalies like book-to-market and momentum. We test this conjecture empirically by directly estimating conditional alphas and betas from short-window regressions (avoiding the need to specify conditioning information). The tests show, consistent with our analytical results, that the conditional CAPM performs nearly as poorly as the unconditional CAP

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/3544
Date16 September 2003
CreatorsLEWELLEN, JONATHAN, NAGEL, STEFAN
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeWorking Paper
Format318782 bytes, application/pdf
RelationMIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4427-03

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