Jagannathan and Wang (1996) derive the asymptotic distribution of the Hansen-Jagannathan distance (HJ-distance) proposed by Hansen and Jagannathan (1997), and develop a specification test of asset pricing models based on the HJ-distance. While the HJ-distance has several desirable properties,...

Jagannathan and Wang [Jagannthan, R., and Wang, Z., "The conditional CAPM and the cross-section of expected returns." Journal of Finance, 51 (1996), 3-53] derive the asymptotic distribution of the Hansen-Jagannathan distance (HJ-distance) proposed by Hansen and Jagannathan [Hansen, L.P., and...