Asset Pricing When ‘This Time Is Different’

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Michael Johannes and Lars A. Lochstoer

The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, vol. 30, issue 2, 505-535

Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that younger people update beliefs in response to aggregate shocks more than older people. We embed this generational learning bias in an equilibrium model in which agents have recursive preferences and are uncertain about exogenous aggregate dynamics. The departure from rational expectations is statistically modest, but generates high average risk premiums varying at generational frequencies, a positive relation between past returns and agents’ future return forecasts, and substantial and persistent over- and undervaluation. Consistent with the model, the price-dividend ratio is empirically more sensitive to macroeconomic shocks when the fraction of young in the population is higher.Received September 14, 2015; editorial decision March 10, 2016 by Editor Stefan Nagel

JEL-codes: G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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