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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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The Common Factor in Idiosyncratic Volatility : Quantitative Asset Pricing Implications

Herskovic, Bernard - 2014

We show that firms' idiosyncratic volatility obeys a strong factor structure and that shocks to the common factor in … idiosyncratic volatility (CIV) are priced. Stocks in the lowest CIV-beta quintile earn average returns 5.4% per year higher than … heterogeneous-agent model. In the model, CIV is a priced state variable because an increase in idiosyncratic firm volatility raises …

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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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Predictability of Returns and Cash Flows

Koijen, Ralph S. J. - 2010

We review the literature on return and cash flow growth predictability form the perspective of the present-value identity. We focus predominantly on recent work. Our emphasis is on U.S. aggregate stock return predictability, but we also discuss evidence from other asset classes and countries

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Can Housing Collateral Explain Long-Run Swings in Asset Returns?

Lustig, Hanno N. - 2007

correlated at low frequencies. (4) The model mimics the slow decline in the volatility of stock returns and the riskless interest …

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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 Theory of Housing Collateral, Consumption Insurance and Risk Premia

Lustig, Hanno N.; Van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn - 2021

In a model with housing collateral, a decrease in house prices reduces the collateral value of housing, increases household exposure to idiosyncratic risk, and increases the conditional market price of risk. This collateral mechanism can quantitatively replicate the conditional and the...

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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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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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