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time - total returns to the largest, but oft ignored, component of household wealth, housing. The annual data on total … returns for equity, housing, bonds, and bills cover 16 advanced economies from 1870 to 2015, and our new evidence reveals many …
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The risk premium puzzle is even worse than previously reported if housing is also taken into consideration next to … equity. While housing premia are only moderately smaller than equity premia, they are significantly less volatile and the … Sharpe ratio of housing is significantly larger. Hence, three question arise: i) are existing approaches to explain the …
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The risk premium puzzle is even worse than previously reported if housing is also taken into consideration next to … equity. While housing premia are only moderately smaller than equity premia, they are significantly less volatile and the … Sharpe ratio of housing is significantly larger. Hence, three question arise: i) are existing approaches to explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252842
We study the determinants of the subprime mortgage loan spread, with a particular focus on funding liquidity and default-liquidity interaction effects. We find that sector-level as well as macro funding liquidity provision affected subprime loan rates, explaining a significant portion of the...
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In this paper we estimate inflation expectations for several Latin American countries using an affine model that takes as factors the observed inflation and the parameters generated from zero-coupon yield curves of nominal bonds. By implementing this approach, we avoid the use of...
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This paper extends the benchmark Macro-Finance model by introducing, next to the standard macroeconomic factors, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED spread while the return-forecasting (risk premium) factor...
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We study the determinants of sovereign bond spreads in the euro area since the introduction of the euro. We show that an aggregate risk factor is a main driver of spreads. This factor also plays an important indirect role for risk spreads through its interaction with the size and structure of...
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We present data from the Survey of Consumer Finances showing that the increased earnings (labor income) inequality, in combination with increased stockmarket participation, has roughly doubled stockholders´ share of aggregate labor income in the last four decades. We explore the impact of the...
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This short paper shows that a New Keynesian model with limited asset market participation can generate a high risk-premium on unlevered equity relative to short-term risk-free bonds and high variability of equity returns driven by monetary policy shocks with zero persistence.
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The equity premium is a key parameter in asset allocation policies. There is a vigorous debate in the literature regarding the actual measurement of the equity premium, its size and the determinants of its variation. This study aims to take stock of this literature by means of a meta-analysis....
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