The poor empirical record of the CAPM paved the way towards the development of multi-factor asset pricing models. The three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) is regarded as a ground-breaking multi-factor asset pricing model. This paper examines the performance of the three-factor model of...

Regularity conditions are given for the consistency of the Poisson quasi-maximum likelihood estimator of the conditional mean parameter of a count time series. The asymptotic distribution of the estimator is studied when the parameter belongs to the interior of the parameter space and when it...