. Clarification of this point necessitates a study of the relationship between consumption, savings, and equity within the framework …

variation can resolve several asset-pricing puzzles, including the large countercyclical variation of expected risk premia, the … explanatory power of long-run risk asset-pricing models …

and 4 years is effective in explaining the differences in risk premia across alternative test assets, including recently …

unconditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth and the moments of the risk-free rate, equity premium, price …-dividend ratio, and aggregate dividend and consumption growth. The model-implied risk-free rate and price-dividend ratio are … procyclical while the market return has countercyclical mean and variance. Finally, household consumption risk explains the cross …

the unconditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth and the moments of the risk free rate, equity … premium, price-dividend ratio, and aggregate dividend and consumption growth. The model-implied risk free rate and price …-dividend ratio are pro-cyclical while the market return has countercyclical mean and variance. Finally, household consumption risk …

unconditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth and the moments of the risk-free rate, equity premium, price …-dividend ratio, and aggregate dividend and consumption growth. The model-implied risk-free rate and price-dividend ratio are … procyclical while the market return has countercyclical mean and variance. Finally, household consumption risk explains the cross …

-agents model with two main ingredients: i) rare disasters; ii) heterogeneous beliefs. The model captures time-varying risk premia … and precautionary savings in a setting that nests the textbook New Keynesian model. The model generates large movements in …

We decompose the standard consumption beta into two components that measure consumption risk in high and low economic … activity states. Recessionary consumption risk commands a positive and statistically significant compensation, while the market … price of expansionary consumption risk is not robust. The two-beta model explains well the cross-section of excess returns …