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In this article we examine an intertemporal capital asset pricing model (CAPM) that allows for time-varying conditional covariances that are assumed to follow a multivariate integrated generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (IGARCH) process. The resulting pricing equation includes idiosyncratic risk premia in addition to the usual market beta. Empirical analysis based on ten size and ten industry portfolios reveals significant idiosyncratic premia for most portfolios. Overall, we reject the static CAPM in favor of the intertemporal CAPM.
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Nanisetty, P., Bharati, R. & Gupta, M. The effect of time-varying covariances on asset risk premia. Rev Quant Finan Acc 7, 205–220 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00243979
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