Investor Information, Long-Run Risk, and the Term Structure of Equity

• Autores: Mariano M. Croce, Martin Lettau, Sydney C. Ludvigson
• Localización: Review of Financial Studies, ISSN-e 1465-7368, Vol. 28, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 706-742
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We study the role of information in asset-pricing models with long-run cash flow risk. When investors can distinguish short- from long-run consumption risks (full information), the model generates a sizable equity risk premium only if the equity term structure slopes up, contrary to the data. In general, the short- and long-run components are unidentified. We propose a sparsity-based bounded rationality model of long-run risk that is both parsimonious and fully identified from historical data. In contrast to full information, the model generates a sizable market risk premium simultaneously with a downward-sloping equity term structure, as in the data.