regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …

We study general equilibrium asset prices in a multi-period endowment economy when agents' risk aversion is allowed to … depend on the maturity of the risk. We find horizon-dependent riskaversion preferences generate a decreasing term structure … of risk premia if and only if volatility is stochastic. Our model can thus justify the recent empirical results on the …