Disaster risk and preference shifts in a New Keynesian model

Marlène Isoré and Urszula Szczerbowicz

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2017, vol. 79, issue C, 97-125

Abstract: In RBC models, disaster risk shocks reproduce countercyclical risk premia but generate an increase in consumption along the recession and asset price fall, through their effects on agents’ preferences (Gourio, 2012). This paper offers a solution to this puzzle by developing a New Keynesian model with such a small but time-varying probability of “disaster”. We show that price stickiness, combined with an EIS smaller than unity, restores procyclical consumption and wages, while preserving countercyclical risk premia, in response to disaster risk shocks. The mechanism then provides a rationale for discount factor first- and second-moment (“uncertainty”) shocks.

Keywords: Disaster risk; Rare events; Uncertainty; Asset pricing; DSGE models; Business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 E31 E32 E44 G12 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Disaster Risk and Preference Shifts in a New Keynesian Model (2016)
Working Paper: Disaster Risk and Preference Shifts in a New Keynesian Model (2015)
Working Paper: Disaster risk and preference shifts in a New Keynesian model (2015)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2017.04.001

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