Risk premia and term premia in general equilibirum:

The equity premium consists of a term premium reflecting the longer maturity of equity relative to short-term bills, and a risk premium reflecting the stochastic nature of equity payoffs and the deterministic nature of payoffs on reckless bills. This paper analyzes term premia and the risk premia in...

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Main Author: Abel, Andrew B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. 1998
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 6683
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Summary:The equity premium consists of a term premium reflecting the longer maturity of equity relative to short-term bills, and a risk premium reflecting the stochastic nature of equity payoffs and the deterministic nature of payoffs on reckless bills. This paper analyzes term premia and the risk premia in a general equilibrium model with catching up with the Joneses preferences and a novel formulation of leverage. Closed-form solutions for moments of asset returns are derived. First-order approximations illustrate the effects of parameters and provide an algorithm to match the means and variances of the riskless rate and the rate of return on equity.
Physical Description:44 S. graph. Darst.

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