This paper shows that the relationships between sensitivity to changes in aggregate volatility and expected return on stocks documented by Ang et al. (2006) for the fifteen-year period from 1986 to 2000 have disappeared in the following fifteen-year period. Aggregate volatility betas in the...

Using a procedure analogous to that of Ang et al. (2006), this paper documents that aggregate volatility risk does not appear to be priced in European equity markets. Specifically, based on the 2002-2016 period (for which European stock return data is available), the price of aggregate...

We examine the relationship between total stock market risk and the returns on several long-short portfolios that have been widely regarded as priced risk factors in much of prior literature. We find that shocks to implied volatility and to expected realized volatility are related to the returns...