Filtering Returns for Unspecified Biases in Priors when Testing Asset Pricing Theory
资产定价检验中对未指定先验偏差的收益过滤
Procedures are presented that allow the empiricist to estimate and test asset pricing models on limited-liability securities without the assumption that the historical payoff distribution provides a consistent estimate of the market's prior beliefs. The procedures effectively filter return data for unspecified historical biases in the market's priors. They do not involve explicit estimation of the market's priors, and hence, economize on parameters. The procedures derive…