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Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 9 No. 1 1981

The consumption based asset pricing model

Bradford Cornell

University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

Breeden's demonstration that Merton's multi-beta capital asset pricing model can be collapsed into a single-beta model where betas are computed with respect to aggregate consumption is an important theoretical advance. Nonetheless, Breeden's model retains many of the empirical problems that beset Merton's earlier version. In general the consumption betas will be nonstationary, so that the state variables must be observable for the model to be estimated.

DOI
10.1016/0304-405x(81)90022-2
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
103-108
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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