Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that … assets. Because households are subject to more background risk than previously considered, the estimated model implies a … substantially lower coefficient of risk aversion. We also find renewed support for rule-of-thumb investment strategies under the …

We decompose the standard consumption beta into two components that measure consumption risk in high and low economic … activity states. Recessionary consumption risk commands a positive and statistically significant compensation, while the market … price of expansionary consumption risk is not robust. The two-beta model explains well the cross-section of excess returns …

-time risk-sharing model, where heterogeneous mean-variance investors trade subject to a quadratic transaction cost. The … higher if the more risk-averse agents are net sellers or if the asset supply expands over time …

all circumstances, the model is able to generate coefficients of risk aversion that are consistent with theory. Hence we … the equity premium puzzle and find that it is able to fit the data with a relatively low coefficient of relative risk …

boom yields consistently positive excess returns. This excess return compensates for the risk of high negative returns in … countries on risk aversion, and low (high) risk aversion currencies depreciate (appreciate) in times of global turmoil. …

variation can resolve several asset-pricing puzzles, including the large countercyclical variation of expected risk premia, the … explanatory power of long-run risk asset-pricing models …

and 4 years is effective in explaining the differences in risk premia across alternative test assets, including recently …