This study extends the standard consumption-based capital asset pricing model (C-CAPM) to include two additional factors related to firm size (SMB) and book-to-market value ratio (HML). The inclusion of HML improves mainly the fit of the low book-to-market portfolios, SMB, and HML that are not...

We propose a new test based on the no-arbitrage condition that compares cross-sectional variation in equity returns to the cross-sectional variation in their conditional covariance with the discount factors. Using the multivariate generalized heteroskedasticity in mean model (MGM) to estimate...