Download or read book Two Essays on Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Intertemporal Recursive Utility written by Chenghu Ma and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intertemporal Recursive Utility and an Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model in the Presence of L vy Jumps written by Chenghu Ma and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advanced Asset Pricing Theory written by Chenghu Ma and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad introduction to modern asset pricing theory. The theory is self-contained and unified in presentation. Both the no-arbitrage and the general equilibrium approaches of asset pricing theory are treated coherently within the general equilibrium framework. It fills a gap in the body of literature on asset pricing for being both advanced and comprehensive. The absence of arbitrage opportunities represents a necessary condition for equilibrium in the financial markets. However, the absence of arbitrage is not a sufficient condition for establishing equilibrium. These interrelationships are overlooked by the proponents of the no-arbitrage approach to asset pricing.This book also tackles recent advancement on inversion problems raised in asset pricing theory, which include the information role of financial options and the information content of term structure of interest rates and interest rates contingent claims.The inclusion of the proofs and derivations to enhance the transparency of the underlying arguments and conditions for the validity of the economic theory made it an ideal advanced textbook or reference book for graduate students specializing in financial economics and quantitative finance. The detailed explanations will capture the interest of the curious reader, and it is complete enough to provide the necessary background material needed to delve deeper into the subject and explore the research literature.Postgraduate students in economics with a good grasp of calculus, linear algebra, and probability and statistics will find themselves ready to tackle topics covered in this book. They will certainly benefit from the mathematical coverage in stochastic processes and stochastic differential equation with applications in finance. Postgraduate students in financial mathematics and financial engineering will also benefit, not only from the mathematical tools introduced in this book, but also from the economic ideas underpinning the economic modeling of financial markets.Both these groups of postgraduate students will learn the economic issues involved in financial modeling. The book can be used as an advanced text for Masters and PhD students in all subjects of financial economics, financial mathematics, mathematical finance, and financial engineering. It is also an ideal reference for practitioners and researchers in the subjects.

Download or read book Two Essays on Asset Pricing and Asset Choice written by James Eric Gunderson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book General Equilibrium Option Pricing Method Theoretical and Empirical Study written by Jian Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mainly addresses the general equilibrium asset pricing method in two aspects: option pricing and variance risk premium. First, volatility smile and smirk is the famous puzzle in option pricing. Different from no arbitrage method, this book applies the general equilibrium approach in explaining the puzzle. In the presence of jump, investors impose more weights on the jump risk than the volatility risk, and as a result, investors require more jump risk premium which generates a pronounced volatility smirk. Second, based on the general equilibrium framework, this book proposes variance risk premium and empirically tests its predictive power for international stock market returns.

Download or read book Intertemporal Asset Pricing written by Bernd Meyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighties Mehra and Prescott showed that the risk premium earned by American stocks cannot reasonably be explained by conventional capital market models. Using time additive utility, the observed risk pre mium can only be explained by unrealistically high risk aversion parameters. This phenomenon is well known as the equity premium puzzle. Shortly aft erwards it was also observed that the risk-free rate is too low relative to the observed risk premium. This essay is the first one to analyze these puzzles in the German capital market. It starts with a thorough discussion of the available theoretical mod els and then goes on to perform various empirical studies on the German capital market. After discussing natural properties of the pricing kernel by which future cash flows are translated into securities prices, various multi period equilibrium models are investigated for their implied pricing kernels. The starting point is a representative investor who optimizes his invest ment and consumption policy over time. One important implication of time additive utility is the identity of relative risk aversion and the inverse in tertemporal elasticity of substitution. Since this identity is at odds with reality, the essay goes on to discuss recursive preferences which violate the expected utility principle but allow to separate relative risk aversion and intertemporal elasticity of substitution.

Download or read book Two Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Imperfections written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Equilibrium Asset Pricing written by Aoxiang Yang (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation is developed to address unresolved issues in the asset pricing literature, focusing on both risk premium levels and dynamics. Chapter 1 addresses short-horizon risk premium dynamics. In the data, stock market volatility weakly or even negatively predicts short-run equity and variance risk premia, challenging positive risk-return trade-offs at the heart of leading asset pricing models. I show that a puzzling negative volatility-risk premia relationship concentrates in scattered high-uncertainty states, which occur about 20\% of the time. While at other times, the relationship is strongly positive. I develop a micro-founded learning model in which due to learning frictions investors underreact to structural breaks in high-volatility periods and overreact to transitory variance shocks in normal times. The model can successfully explain the novel time-varying volatility-risk premia relationship at short and long horizons. The model can further account for many other data features, such as a robust positive correlation between equity and variance risk premium, the leverage effect, and negative observations of equity and variance risk premia at the onsets of recessions. Chapter 2, coauthored with Professor Bjorn Eraker, focuse on equilibrium derivatives pricing. It is motivated by the observation that leading asset pricing models typically can not explain the levels or dynamics of VIX options prices. We develop a tractable equilibrium pricing model to explain observed characteristics in equity returns, VIX futures, S\&P 500 options, and VIX options data based on affine jump-diffusive state dynamics and representative agents endowed with Duffie-Epstein recursive preferences. A specific model aimed at capturing VIX options prices and other asset market data is shown to successfully replicate the salient features of consumption, dividends, and asset market data, including the first two moments of VIX futures returns, the average implied volatilities in SPX and VIX options, and first and higher-order moments of VIX options returns. In the data, we document a time variation in the shape of VIX option implied volatility and a time-varying hedging relationship between VIX and SPX options which our model both captures. Our model also matches many other asset pricing moments such as equity premia, variance risk premia, risk-free interest rates, and short-horizon return predictability. To derive our specific model, we first develop a general framework for pricing assets under recursive Duffie-Epstein preferences with IES set to one under the assumption that state variables follow affine jump diffusions, as in \citet{DPS00}. Relative to the literature, our framework has a clear marginal contribution that it is an endowment-based equilibrium model with (i) clearly stated affine state variable dynamics and (ii) precisely characterized equilibrium value function, risk-free rate, prices of risks, and risk-neutral state dynamics. We prove our state-price density is a precise $IES\to1$ limit of that approximately solved in \citet{ErakShal08}. The recursive preference assumption implies that higher-order conditional moments of the economic fundamental, such as its growth volatility and volatility-of-volatility, are explicitly priced in equilibrium. Since VIX derivatives depend on these factors, this in turn implies that the former carry non-zero risk premia.

Download or read book Asset Pricing Implications of A Non Expected Recursive Utility Function written by Jaeho Cho and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a recently developed non-expected recursive utility function in which intertemporal substitution and risk aversion are disentangled, this paper reviews general equilibrium asset pricing in a pure exchange representative consumer economy. Assuming that the growth rates of aggregate dividends are independently and identically distributed over time, closed-form formulas for stock and bond prices (and returns) and equity premium are derived. Using these formulas, various issues in asset pricing, including the respective roles played by the two disparate preference components: intertemporal substitution and risk aversion, are discussed.

Download or read book Two Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Imperfections written by Benjamin Croitoru and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Asset Pricing Model with Time Varying Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution written by Aleksandar Georgiev and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main message of this paper is that it is Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution, which is at the heart of the asset pricing puzzles, not Risk Aversion. We illustrate that point, by first showing that under certainty a model, which allows for a separation of the two characteristics of preferences - the one in Epstein and Zin (1991), leads to a specification of the main pricing equation, which involves a measure of Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution only and not a measure of Risk Aversion. We then resort to an approximation of the main asset pricing equation under uncertainty, to demonstrate the central role played by Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution and to emphasize the importance of its variability. We illustrate that importance by showing that the model in Campbell and Cochrane (1999) is in fact based on time-varying Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution rather then on time-varying Risk Aversion.The main contribution of the paper is to develop a discrete-time alternative to the two most popular recursive utility based asset pricing models. The model proposed in the paper, directly nests the standard one, while replicating and improving upon the two frequently cited advantages of the Epstein-Zin model. It allows for time-varying risk premia, associated with the two most popular asset pricing factors and it achieves separation of risk attitudes from attitudes towards time via constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) and time-varying Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution.

Download or read book Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Epstein Zin and Loss Averse Investors written by Jing Guo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study multi-period equilibrium asset pricing in an economy with Epstein-Zin (EZ-) agents whose preferences for consumption are represented by recursive utility and with loss averse (LA-) agents who derive additional utility of gains and losses and are averse to losses. We propose an equilibrium gain-loss ratio for stocks and show that the LA-agents are more (less) risk averse than the EZ-agents if their degree of loss aversion is higher (lower) than this ratio. When all the agents have unitary relative risk aversion degree and elasticity of intertemporal substitution, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium and the market dominance of the EZ-agents in the long run. Finally, we extend our results to the case in which the LA-agents use probability weighting in their evaluation of gains and losses.

Download or read book Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing written by Julien Cujean and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in the Equilibrium Approach to Aggregate Fluctuations and Asset Pricing written by Sumru Guler Altuǧ and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Revealed Preference Analysis of Asset Pricing Under Recursive Utility written by Larry G. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper considers a representative agent model of asset prices based on a recursive utility specification. A constant elasticity of intertemporal substitution is assumed but the risk-preference component of utility is restricted only by qualitative, nonparametric regularity conditions. The principal contribution is to determine the exhaustive implications of this semiparametric recursive utility model for the one-step ahead joint probability distribution for consumption growth and asset returns

Download or read book Essays in Asset Pricing and Applied Micro economics written by Mark William Clements and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first chapter, Christian Goulding and I present a model of asset prices with recursive preferences and the simple consumption growth dynamics of Mehra and Prescott (1985) but relax the assumption that preference parameters are constant over time. We show that rare, temporary, and plausible fluctuations in the elasticity of inter-temporal substitution (EIS) and risk aversion (RA) can quantitatively explain numerous regularities in U.S. asset prices including: the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles, excess return and consumption growth predictability, a counter-cyclical risk premium and an upward-sloping real yield curve. A novel implication is that time-varying EIS is more important than time-varying RA for explaining many of these regularities, suggesting a new source of risk in investors' ability to plan their consumption over long horizons. In addition, our model can accommodate a behavioral interpretation of psychological factors (e.g. fear) that drive fluctuations in asset prices beyond traditional risk factors.

Download or read book Essays on Intertemporal Asset Pricing written by Fernando Zapatero and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: