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A New Approach Based on Cumulants for Estimating Financial Regression Models with Errors in the Variables: the Fama and French Model Revisited

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Alain Coen () (Département de stratégie des affaires, Université du Québec (Montréal))
Francois-Éric Racicot () (Département des sciences administratives, Université du Québec (Outaouais) et LRSP)

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This paper proposes to revisit both the CAPM and the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) in presence of errors in the variables. To reduce the bias induced by measurement and specification errors, we transpose to the cost of equity an estimator based on cumulants of order three and four initially developed by Dagenais and Dagenais (1997) and lated generalized to financial models by Racicot (2003). Our results show that our technique has great and significant consequences on the measure of the cost of equity. We obtain ipso facto a new estimator of the Jensen alpha.

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Paper provided by Département des sciences administratives, UQO in its series RePAd Working Paper Series with number UQO-DSA-wp142006.

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Date of creation: 01 May 2006
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Keywords: Errors in the variables cumulants higher moments instrumental variables cost of equity Jensen alpha.

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C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Estimation
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G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing
G31 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Capital Budgeting; Investment Policy

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