A theory-consistent CVAR scenario describes a set of testable regularieties one should expect to see in the data if the basic assumptions of the theoretical model are empirically valid. Using this method, the paper demonstrates that all basic assumptions about the shock structure and...

This paper studies the forward premium puzzle in a model with imperfect information. The model predicts fixed effects and conditional heteroskedasticity in the forward premium regression and provides a rationale for the evidence in Mayfield and Murphy (1992)