Aggregate Tail Risk and Expected Returns

David Chapman (), Michael Gallmeyer and J Spencer Martin

The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2018, vol. 8, issue 1, 36-76

Abstract: Do stocks bear a crash risk premium? We examine the empirical performance of the tail index measure from Kelly and Jiang (2014). We find that the tail index explains the cross-section of the discount rate component of returns, but not the cash-flow component. Moreover, in the time series the tail index is uncorrelated with theoretically motivated measures of aggregate uncertainty and systemic risk. In contrast, the tail index Granger causes and is Granger caused by the level of the term structure, and the slope of the term structure Granger causes tail risk.Received June 22, 2016; editorial decision December 23, 2017 by Editor Raman Uppal.

Date: 2018
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