-especially volatility and illiquidity shocks-over the subprime crisis in order to investigate their market timing activities. In a … systematic risk is highly nonlinear in extreme scenarios-especially during the subprime crisis. We find that countercyclical …-traditional risk premia by deliberately increasing their systematic risk while the later focus more on minimizing risk. Our results …

generalized LRR model is as tractable but more flexible due to its separation of ambiguity aversion from both risk aversion and … variance premium puzzle besides the puzzles of the equity premium, the risk-free rate, and the return predictability …. Specifically, the model matches reasonably well key asset-pricing moments with risk aversion under 5. Model calibration shows that …

-varying volatility are preferred to the long-run risk model. We analyze asset pricing implications of the estimated models …