Risk premia from the cross-section of individual assets
从个体资产横截面估计风险溢价
We propose the continuous updating estimator (CUE) for estimating ex-post risk premia from large cross-sections of individual asset returns over limited time periods. We analyze its properties while also allowing for an unknown number of unobserved factors. The CUE then provides an estimator of its, so-called, pseudo-true value, i . e . , the risk premia on the observed factors without assuming that they comprise all priced factors. We develop size-correct procedures for…