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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Higher order effects in asset pricing models with long-run risks
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Walter Pohl
  • Karl Schmedders
  • Ole Wilms
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Finance
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0022-1082
Volume 73
Number 3
Page Range 1061 - 1111
Date 2018
Abstract Text This paper shows that the latest generation of asset pricing models with long‐run risk exhibit economically significant nonlinearities, and thus the ubiquitous Campbell‐Shiller log‐linearization can generate large numerical errors. These errors translate in turn to considerable errors in the model predictions, for example, for the magnitude of the equity premium or return predictability. We demonstrate that these nonlinearities arise from the presence of multiple highly persistent processes, which cause the exogenous states to attain values far away from their long‐run means with nonnegligible probability. These extreme values have a significant impact on asset price dynamics.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/jofi.12615
Other Identification Number merlin-id:18106
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