Risk Preferences and The Macro Announcement Premium

Hengjie Ai and Ravi Bansal

No 22527, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The paper develops a theory for equity premium around macroeconomic announcements. Stock returns realized around pre-scheduled macroeconomic announcements, such as the employment report and the FOMC statements, account for 55% of the market equity premium during the 1961-2014 period, and virtually 100% of it during the later period of 1997-2014, where more announcement data are available. We provide a characterization theorem for the set of intertemporal preferences that generate a positive announcement premium. Our theory establishes that the announcement premium identifies a significant deviation from expected utility and constitutes an asset market based evidence for a large class of non-expected models that features aversion to ”Knightian uncertainty”, for example, Gilboa and Schmeidler [30]. We also present a dynamic model to account for the evolution of equity premium around macroeconomic announcements.

JEL-codes: E0 G0 G02 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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