Ambiguity, Long-Run Risks, and Asset Prices

Bin Wei

No 2021-21, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: I generalize the long-run risks (LRR) model of Bansal and Yaron (2004) by incorporating recursive smooth ambiguity aversion preferences from Klibanoff et al. (2005, 2009) and time-varying ambiguity. Relative to the Bansal-Yaron model, the generalized LRR model is as tractable but more flexible due to its separation of ambiguity aversion from both risk aversion and the intertemporal elasticity of substitution. This three-way separation allows the model to further account for the variance premium puzzle besides the puzzles of the equity premium, the risk-free rate, and the return predictability. Specifically, the model matches reasonably well key asset-pricing moments with risk aversion under 5. Model calibration shows that the ambiguity aversion channel accounts for 77 percent of the variance premium and 40 percent of the equity premium.

Keywords: smooth ambiguity aversion; long-run risks; equity premium puzzle; risk-free rate puzzle; variance premium puzzle; return predictability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 E44 G12 G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54
Date: 2021-09-08
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DOI: 10.29338/wp2021-21

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