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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Why Is It So Difficult to Uncover the Risk-Return Tradeoff in Stock Returns?

Markku LannePentti Saikkonen

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Economics and Econometrics050208 financeFinancial economicsfungi05 social sciencesasset pricingWald testasymptotic powerAsymptotic powerGARCH-in-Mean0502 economics and businessEconomicsCapital asset pricing model050207 economicsFinanceStock (geology)Risk return

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The low power of the standard Wald test in a GARCH-in-Mean model with an unnecessary intercept is shown to explain the apparent absence of a risk-return tradeoff in stocks. The importance of this finding is illustrated with monthly U.S. data. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

10.1016/j.econlet.2006.01.029https://hdl.handle.net/1814/16534