The consumption-based CAPM pricing rule is sometimes interpreted as implying that the price of an asset with a random payoff falls short of its expected payoff if and only if the random payoff positively correlates with consumption. This note demonstrates that this interpretation to C-CAPM is...

Daily data and component GARCH (CGARCH) models strongly support a positive risk-return relation, in contrast to previous international results. Long-run volatility appears to be important in determining the conditional equity premium, but the evidence might be spurious.

The mean reversion of real exchange rates in G5 countries depends on both countries’ fiscal deficits/surplus in a nonlinear way. When the fiscal policy pushes the real exchange rate to be deviated further away from the equilibrium level, the mean reversion process is faster.