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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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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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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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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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