Two-Pass Cross-Sectional Regression of Factor Pricing Models: A Minimum Distance Approach

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Seung C. Ahn

Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department

Christopher Gadarowski

Rowan University - Accounting & Finance

M. Fabricio Perez

Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics

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Date Written: Octuber 31, 2010

Abstract

This paper examines the asymptotic and finite sample properties of the two-pass cross-sectional regressions estimators, when the factors and the asset returns are conditionally heteroskedastic and/or autocorrelated. Using a minimum distance approach, we derive heteroskedasticity- and/or autocorrelation-consistent (HAC) standard errors for the two-pass estimators in a systematic and intuitive way. Moreover, we identify the optimal two-pass estimator that is asymptotically more efficient than other two-pass estimators. Also, we derive an HAC model specification test statistic which is an extension of Shanken’s GLS residual test statistic (1985). Our Monte Carlo simulations provide evidence of the importance of controlling for autocorrelation in the two-pass estimation. We show that the t-tests computed with HAC standard errors produce more reliable inferences than the tests computed with the standard errors by Fama and MacBeth (1973) or Shanken (1992) when model disturbances are autocorrelated. We also find that the t-tests based on the optimal two-pass estimator require the use very large samples to provide reliable results. Lastly, we find that neither Shanken’s (1985) specification test nor the robust specification test derived in this paper have desirable finite-sample properties when disturbances are autocorrelated.

Keywords: two pass, Fama Macbeth, risk prices, autocorrelation

JEL Classification: C12, C13, C3

Suggested Citation

Ahn, Seung C. and Gadarowski, Christopher and Perez, Marcos Fabricio, Two-Pass Cross-Sectional Regression of Factor Pricing Models: A Minimum Distance Approach (Octuber 31, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1518086 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1518086

Seung C. Ahn

Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department ( email )

Tempe, AZ 85287-3806
United States

Christopher Gadarowski

Rowan University - Accounting & Finance ( email )

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United States
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Marcos Fabricio Perez (Contact Author)

Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics ( email )

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Canada
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