downward sloping term structure of low-frequency variance risk premia in normal times. In periods of distress, the term …

This paper implements a novel model-free methodology to measure skewness risk premia in individual stocks. The … skewness risk premium in individual stocks. The risk premium massively increased after the 2008/2009 financial crisis due to an … increase in the price of put options in individual stocks. Part of this skewness risk premium is idiosyncratic. Frictions on …

A conditional asset pricing model with risk and uncertainty implies that the time-varying exposures of equity … portfolios to the market and uncertainty factors carry positive risk premiums. The empirical results from the size, book … that equity portfolios that are highly correlated with economic uncertainty proxied by the variance risk premium (VRP …

The long-run consumption risk (LRR) model is a promising approach to resolve prominent asset pricing puzzles. The … serial correlation of consumption and dividend growth and the equilibrium conditions for market return and risk-free rate, as … well as the model-implied predictability of the risk-free rate. We match analytical moments when possible and simulated …