Report
Measuring the pricing error of the arbitrage pricing theory
Geweke, John F.; Zhou, Guofu (1995)
This paper provides an exact Bayesian framework for analyzing the arbitrage pricing theory (APT). Based on the Gibbs sampler, we show how to obtain the exact posterior distributions for functions of interest in the factor model. In particular, we propose a measure of the APT pricing deviations and obtain its exact posterior distribution. Using monthly portfolio returns grouped by industry and market capitalization, we find that there is little improvement in reducing the pricing errors by including more factors beyond the first one.
Staff Report , Paper 189

Working Paper
Out-of-sample equity premium prediction: economic fundamentals vs. moving-average rules
Tu, Jun; Zhou, Guofu; Neely, Christopher J.; Rapach, David E. (2010)
This paper analyzes the ability of both economic variables and moving-average rules to forecast the monthly U.S. equity premium using out-of-sample tests for 1960?2008. Both approaches provide statistically and economically significant out-of-sample forecasting gains, which are concentrated in U.S. business-cycle recessions. Nevertheless, economic variables and moving-average rules capture different sources of equity premium fluctuations: moving average rules detect the decline in the average equity premium early in recessions, while economic variables more readily pick up the rise in the ...
Working Papers , Paper 2010-008