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Rare Disasters, Tail Aversion, and Asset Pricing Puzzles

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  • Gerrit Meyerheim

    (University of Munich)

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This paper integrates tail aversion, implemented via a one-period entropic tilt, with rare disasters in a consumption-based asset pricing model with CRRA utility to jointly address the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles. The model delivers closed-form expressions for the risk-free rate and asset moments, pushes out the Hansen-Jagannathan bound, implies a low risk-free rate via diffusion and disaster channels, and delivers natural upper and lower bounds of risk aversion. Calibrated to long-run return data and disciplined by disaster evidence, the model matches average returns, volatility, and a low real risk-free rate with very modest risk aversion.

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  • Gerrit Meyerheim, 2025. "Rare Disasters, Tail Aversion, and Asset Pricing Puzzles," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 549, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
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    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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