We evaluate the empirical validity of popular asset-pricing models in explicit consideration of statistical power, by employing the adaptive significance level and equal-probability test. Past studies often use samples from a large cross-section of portfolios over a long time period, conducting...

This paper proposes a test for the signal-to-noise ratio applicable to a range of significance tests and model diagnostics in a linear regression. It is particularly useful under a large or massive sample size, where a conventional test frequently rejects an economically negligible deviation...