Wolff, Christian; Lehnert, Thorsten; Lin, Yuehao - Luxembourg School of Finance, Faculté de droit, … - 2014
analytical link between the equity premium, risk aversion and the systematic variance and skewness risk premium. In an empirical …-averse investors demand risk-compensation for holding equity when the systematic skewness risk premium is high. However, when we … low, while in down-markets (low sentiment) risk aversion is high. We show that in line with theory, the skewness-risk …