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A NOTE ON BAYESIAN INFERENCE IN ASSET PRICING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2001

J.L. Knight  and
S.E. Satchell
J.L. Knight
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
S.E. Satchell
Affiliation:
Trinity College and University of Cambridge
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Abstract

In this paper the authors extend results by Harvey and Zhou (1990, Journal of Financial Econometrics 26, 221–254) and Kandel, McCulloch, and Stambaugh (1995, Review of Financial Studies 8(1), 1–53) to derive the posterior distribution of a key parameter in a Bayesian analysis of asset pricing models. It is shown that this distribution depends upon the same terms that constitute the standard asset pricing test of Jobson and Korkie (1985, Canadian Journal of Administrative Science 12, 114–138). Contrary to the view held by other authors, we find straightforward expressions for the posterior distribution that can be calculated without resorting to Monte Carlo methods.

Type
MISCELLANEA
Information
Econometric Theory , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 475 - 482
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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