Pricing Model Performance and the Two‐Pass Cross‐Sectional Regression Methodology
定价模型表现与两步横截面回归方法
ABSTRACT Over the years, many asset pricing studies have employed the sample cross‐sectional regression (CSR) R 2 as a measure of model performance. We derive the asymptotic distribution of this statistic and develop associated model comparison tests, taking into account the impact of model misspecification on the variability of the CSR estimates. We encounter several examples of large R 2 differences that are not statistically significant. A version of the intertemporal…