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Equity-Premium And Risk-Free-Rate Puzzles At Long Horizons

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  • DANIEL, KENT
  • MARSHALL, DAVID
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    The failure of consumption-based asset pricing models to match thestochastic properties of the equity premium and the risk-free ratehas been attributed by some authors to frictions, transaction costs,or durability. However, such frictions primarily would affect thehigher-frequency data components: Consumption-based pricing modelsthat concentrate on long-horizon returns should be more successful.We consider two consumption-based models: time-separable utility, andthe habit model of Constantinides. We estimate a vector ARCH modelthat includes the pricing kernel and the equity return, and use thefitted model to assess the model s implications for the equitypremium and for the risk-free rate. Neither model performs well at aquarterly horizon, but at longer horizons the Constantinides modelcan match the mean and the variance of the observed equity premium,captures time variation of the equity premium, and can better matchthe observed risk-free rate. We conclude that the equity-premium andrisk-free-rate puzzles are primarily problems for shorter-horizonreturns.

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    Article provided by Cambridge University Press in its journal Macroeconomic Dynamics.

    Volume (Year): 1 (1997)
    Issue (Month): 02 (June)
    Pages: 452-484

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    Handle: RePEc:cup:macdyn:v:1:y:1997:i:02:p:452-484_00

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    2. Victoria Galsband, 2010. "The cross-section of equity returns and assets’ fundamental cash-flow risk," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 327-351, December.
    3. Stanislav Khrapov, 2012. "Risk Premia: Short and Long-term," Working Papers w0169, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
    4. Canzoneri, Matthew B. & Cumby, Robert E. & Diba, Behzad T., 2007. "Euler equations and money market interest rates: A challenge for monetary policy models," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(7), pages 1863-1881, October.
    5. Cogley, Timothy, 2002. "Idiosyncratic risk and the equity premium: evidence from the consumer expenditure survey," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 309-334, March.
    6. Balduzzi, Pierluigi & Yao, Tong, 2007. "Testing heterogeneous-agent models: an alternative aggregation approach," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(2), pages 369-412, March.
    7. Sheng Guo, 2009. "Switching Regression Estimates of EIS for Stockholders and Non-Stockholders," Working Papers 0903, Florida International University, Department of Economics.
    8. Jianfeng Yu, 2012. "Using Long-Run Consumption-Return Correlations to Test Asset Pricing Models," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 15(3), pages 317-335, October.
    9. John Cochrane, 2005. "Financial Markets and the Real Economy," NBER Working Papers 11193, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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