[This article develops an intertemporal, discrete-time, competitive equilibrium version of the arbitrage pricing theory (APT) and explores the econometric implications of this model under various restrictions on investor preferences and on the dynamic behavior of dividends. We describe conditions under which the econometric techniques typically used for estimating and testing the APT can be shown to be consistent with our economic model. We relate our intertemporal version of the APT to the static APT and to Merton's intertemporal capital asset pricing model.]

This article develops an intertemporal, discrete-time, competitive equilibrium version of the arbitrage pricing theory (APT) and explores the econometric implications of this model under various restrictions on investor preferences and on the dynamic behavior of dividends. We describe conditions under which the econometric techniques typically used for estimating and testing the APT can be shown to be consistent with our economic model. We relate our intertemporal version of the APT to the static APT and to Merton’s intertemporal capital asset pricing model.

1. Preferences Representation and Risk Aversion. 2. Stachastic Dominance. 3. Mathematics of the Portfolio Frontier. 4. Two Fund Separation and Linear Valuation. 5. Allocative Efficiency and the Valuation of State Contingent Securities. 6. Valuation of Complex Securities and Options with Preference Restrictions. 7. Multiperiod Securities Markets I: Equilibrium Valuation. 8. Multiperiod Securities Markets II: Valuation by Arbitrage. 9. Financial Markets with Differential Information. 10. Econometric Issues in Testing the Capital Asset Pricing Model.