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upward movements in realized market return volatility. Common wisdom connects these spikes with elevated uncertainty on … state variables and parameters. I show that infrequent, large and relatively transitory macroeconomic uncertainty shocks …, the onset of the second Gulf War, and the great financial crisis of 2008-2009. I compute macroeconomic uncertainty as the …
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We explore the performance of mixed-frequency predictive regressions for stock returns from the perspective of a Bayesian investor. We develop a constrained parameter learning approach for sequential estimation allowing for belief revisions. Empirically, we find that mixed-frequency models...
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This paper introduces the term structure of interest rates into a medium-scale DSGE model. This extension results in a multi-period forecasting model that is estimated under both adaptive learning and rational expectations. Term structure information enables us to characterize agents'...
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The problem of optimal wealth allocation is solved under the assumptions that interest rates are stochastic and stock returns are predictable with observed and unobserved factors. The stock risk premium is taken to be an affine function of the predictive variables and the stock return volatility...
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