Home > Working Papers

Working Paper 2005-011A

"High Equity Premia and Crash Fears. Rational Foundations"
by Massimo Guidolin

We show that when in Lucas trees model the process for dividends is described by a lattice tree subject to infrequent but observable structural breaks, in equilibrium recursive rational learning may inflate the equity risk premium and reduce the risk-free interest rate for low levels of risk aversion. The key condition for these results to obtain is the presence of sufficient initial pessimism. The relevance of these findings is magnified by the fact that under full information our artificial economy cannot generate asset returns matching the empirical evidence for any positive relative risk aversion.

Full Text - Acrobat PDF (335k)

Notify Me of Updates for:
Category > Finance
Category > Monetary Policy/Macroeconomics
Author > Massimo Guidolin
Research Papers and Publications: JEL Code > G12
Research Papers and Publications: JEL Code > D83