Consumption Strikes Back?: Measuring Long-Run Risk

Lars Hansen, John Heaton and Nan Li

No 11476, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We characterize and measure a long-run risk return tradeoff for the valuation of financial cash flows that are exposed to fluctuations in macroeconomic growth. This tradeoff features components of financial cash flows that are only realized far into the future but are still reflected in current asset values. We use the recursive utility model with empirical inputs from vector autoregressions to quantify this relationship; and we study the long-run risk differences in aggregate securities and in portfolios constructed based on the ratio of book equity to market equity. Finally, we explore the resulting measurement challenges and the implied sensitivity to alternative specifications of stochastic growth.

JEL-codes: E2 G1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-07
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Published as Hansen, Lars Peter, John C. Heaton, and Nan Li. "Consumption Strikes Back? Measuring Long-Run Risk." Journal of Political Economy 116, 2 (2008).

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