Jay Shanken has made enormous contributions to asset pricing. The standard 2-pass OLS method of estimating the risk premium associated with risk factors goes like this. Begin by suspecting that some risk factors (size, momentum, shocks to the risk-bearing capacity of market-based intermediaries, or whatever) are priced into the cross-section of expected…
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