This paper develops a new methodology for estimating and testing conditional factor models in finance. We propose a two-stage procedure that naturally unifies the two existing approaches in the finance literature -- the parametric approach and the nonparametric approach. Our combined approach...

This paper develops a new methodology for estimating and testing conditional factor models in finance. We propose a two-stage procedure that naturally unifies the two existing approaches in the finance literature -- the parametric approach and the nonparametric approach. Our combined approach...

We design an adjusted long-term volatility (ADJ_LV) indicator by removing the interference information of short-term volatility from the simple long-term volatility indicator to investigate the level of predictive ability that ADJ_LV has for stock returns. In a sample spanning 2000 to 2019 and...