Asset Pricing at the Millennium

John Y. Campbell

NBER Working Paper No. 7589
Issued in March 2000
NBER Program(s):   AP   CF   EFG   ME

This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work, and on the tradeoff between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor (SDF) that prices all assets in the economy. The behavior of the term structure of real interest rates restricts the conditional mean of the SDF, while patterns of risk premia restrict its conditional volatility and factor structure. Stylized facts about interest rates, aggregate stock prices, and cross-sectional patterns in stock returns have stimulated new research on optimal portfolio choice, intertemporal equilibrium models, and behavioral finance.

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Published: Campbell, John Y. "Asset Pricing At The Millennium," Journal of Finance, 2000, v55(4,Aug), 1515-1567.

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