Financial Intermediaries and the Cross‐Section of Asset Returns
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- 10 November 2014
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Finance
- Vol. 69 (6) , 2557-2596
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12189
Abstract
Financial intermediaries trade frequently in many markets using sophisticated models. Their marginal value of wealth should therefore provide a more informative stochastic discount factor (SDF) than that of a representative consumer. Guided by theory, we use shocks to the leverage of securities broker‐dealers to construct an intermediary SDF. Intuitively, deteriorating funding conditions are associated with deleveraging and high marginal value of wealth. Our single‐factor model prices size, book‐to‐market, momentum, and bond portfolios with an R2 of 77% and an average annual pricing error of 1%—performing as well as standard multifactor benchmarks designed to price these assets.Keywords
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