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Volatility, the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices

Bansal, Ravi - 2012

We show that volatility movements have first-order implications for consumption dynamics and asset prices. Volatility … news affects the stochastic discount factor and carries a separate risk premium. In the data, volatility risks are … aggregate wealth and the cross-sectional differences in risk premia. Estimation of our volatility risks based model yields an …

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Rational Pessimism, Rational Exuberance, and Asset Pricing Models

Bansal, Ravi - 2007

financial markets such as the size of the equity premium and the volatility of the stock market. In one model, the long run … significance levels, and they can track quite closely a new measure of realized annual volatility. Further scrutiny using a rich …

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International Risk Sharing is Better than You Think (or Exchange Rates are Much Too Smooth)

Brandt, Michael W.; Cochrane, John H.; Santa-Clara, Pedro - 2021

Exchange rates depreciate by the difference between the domestic and foreign marginal utility growths. Exchange rates vary a lot , as much as 10% per year. However, equity premia imply that marginal utility growths vary much more, by at least 50% per year. This means that marginal utility...

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The Dog that Did Not Bark : A Defense of Return Predictability

Cochrane, John H. - 2009

To question the statistical significance of return predictability, we cannot specify a null that simply turns off that predictability, leaving dividend growth predictability at its essentially zero sample value. If neither returns nor dividend growth are predictable, then the dividend-price...

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Explaining the Variance of Price Dividend Ratios

Cochrane, John H. - 2010

This paper presents a bound on the variance of the price-dividend ratio and a decomposition of the variance of the price-dividend ratio into components that reflect variation in expected future discount rates and variation in expected future dividend growth. Unobserved discount rates needed to...

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Interpretable Asset Markets?

Bansal, Ravi - 2010

In this paper we show that measures of economic uncertainty (conditional volatility of consumption) predict and are …

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Risks for the Long Run : Estimation with Time Aggregation

Bansal, Ravi - 2012

prices, including the equity premia, risk-free rate and volatility puzzles …

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Using Production Based Asset Pricing to Explain the Behavior of Stock Returns Over the Business Cycle

Cochrane, John H. - 2001

The investment return is defined as the real return that results from marginally increasing investment at date r, and then reaping the extra output and decreasing investment at date t+1 to leave the production plan for other dates unchanged. This paper constructs investment returns from...

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Two Trees : Asset Price Dynamics Induced by Market Clearing

Cochrane, John H. - 2010

If stocks go up, investors may want to rebalance their portfolios. But investors cannot all rebalance. Expected returns may need to change so that the average investor is still happy to hold the market portfolio despite its changed composition. In this way, simple market clearing can give rise...

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A Long-Run Risks Explanation of Predictability Puzzles in Bond and Currency Markets

Bansal, Ravi - 2012

We show that bond risk-premia rise with uncertainty about expected inflation and fall with uncertainty about expected growth; the magnitude of return predictability using these two uncertainty measures is similar to that by multiple yields. Motivated by this evidence, we develop and estimate a...

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