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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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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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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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On Time-Series Properties of Time-Varying Risk Premium in the Yen/Dollar Exchange Market

Canova, Fabio - 2008

but it was neither constant nor stable over subsamples and that its volatility was considerably reduced after October 1982 …

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The Term Structure of Equity Risk Premia

Bansal, Ravi - 2019

We use traded equity dividend strips from U.S., Europe, and Japan from 2004-2017 to study the slope of the term structure of equity dividend risk premia. In the data, a robust finding is that the term structure of dividend risk premia (growth rates) is positively (negatively) sloped in...

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Market Evaluations of Banking Fragility in Japan : Japan Premium, Stock Prices, and Credit Derivatives

Ito, Takatoshi - 2010

This paper investigates movements of market indicators of banking fragility, namely, Japan premium, stock prices, and credit derivative spreads of Japanese banks. Although the Japan premium in the euro-dollar market seemed to have virtually disappeared since April 1999, credit and default risks...

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Price of Long-Run Temperature Shifts in Capital Markets

Bansal, Ravi - 2016

We use the forward-looking information from the US and global capital markets to estimate the economic impact of global warming, specifically, long-run temperature shifts. We find that global warming carries a positive risk premium that increases with the level of temperature and that has almost...

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Temperature, Aggregate Risk, and Expected Returns

Bansal, Ravi - 2011

In this paper we show that temperature is an aggregate risk factor that adversely affects economic growth. Our argument is based on evidence from global capital markets which shows that the covariance between country equity returns and temperature (i.e., temperature betas) contains sharp...

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