Abstract

We propose a new model that estimates the long- and short-run components of the variances and covariances. The advantage of our model to the existing DCC-based models is that it uses the same form for both the variances and covariances and that it estimates these moments simultaneously. We apply this model to obtain long- and short-run factor betas for industry test portfolios, where the risk factors are the market, SMB, and HML portfolios. We use these betas in cross-sectional analysis of the risk premia. Among other things, we find that the risk premium related to the short-run market beta is significantly positive, irrespective of the choice of test portfolio. Further, the risk premia for the short-run betas of all the risk factors are significant outside recessions.

Highlights

  • A vast literature is devoted to investigating the cross-sectional relationship between expected returns and risk

  • We find that the data frequency matters for estimation of the risk premium: None of the risk premia estimated at weekly frequencies is significant, which is in contrast to the risk premia obtained at the monthly frequency

  • The risk premia associated with both the long- and short-run small-minus-big portfolio (SMB) betas are significant, only the risk premium associated with the short-run market beta is significantly positive

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Introduction

A vast literature is devoted to investigating the cross-sectional relationship between expected returns and risk (see, e.g., Engle, Bollerslev, and Wooldridge, 1988; Harvey, 1989; Schwert and Seguin, 1990; Ang, Hocrick, Xing, and Zhang, 2006; Bali, 2008). We suggest a new conditional asset-pricing model by using the mixed-data-sampling approach in a component bivariate GARCH model This new framework allows us to simultaneously obtain long- and short-run factor-beta components. Baele and Londono (2013) use Colacito, Engle, and Ghysels’s (2011) dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) MIDAS model to obtain long-run betas. They find that DCCMIDAS betas are superior to ordinary betas in limiting the downside risk and ex-post market exposure for the minimum-variance strategy. We apply our component GARCH model to each factor and an asset (industry portfolio) to estimate long- and short-run variances and covariances.

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