Volatility Risk Premium, Risk Aversion and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Författare
Summary, in English
We test if innovations in investor risk aversion are a priced factor in the stock market. Time series tests show that the new factor partly explains the strong momentum effect in stock returns. Furthermore, using 25 portfolios sorted on book-to-market and size as test assets, our new factor together with the market factor explains 64% of the variation in
average returns compared to 60% for the Fama-French model. The new factor is generally significant with an estimated risk premium close to its time series mean also when industry portfolios and portfolios sorted on previous returns are augmented to the test assets.
average returns compared to 60% for the Fama-French model. The new factor is generally significant with an estimated risk premium close to its time series mean also when industry portfolios and portfolios sorted on previous returns are augmented to the test assets.
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1079-1100
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Financial Review
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Business Administration
- Economics
Nyckelord
- volatility risk premium
- Asset pricing
- risk aversion
- momentum
- habit formation
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0732-8516