Asset Pricing Under Uncertainty About Shock Propagation

SAFE Working Paper No. 34

67 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2013 Last revised: 25 Mar 2014

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Nicole Branger

University of Münster - Finance Center Muenster

Patrick Grüning

Latvijas Banka

Holger Kraft

Goethe University Frankfurt

Christoph Meinerding

Deutsche Bundesbank

Christian Schlag

Goethe University Frankfurt; Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Date Written: November 18, 2013

Abstract

We analyze the equilibrium in a two-tree (sector) economy with two regimes. The output of each tree is driven by a jump-diffusion process, and a downward jump in one sector of the economy can (but need not) trigger a shift to a regime where the likelihood of future jumps is generally higher. Furthermore, the true regime is unobservable, so that the representative Epstein-Zin investor has to extract the probability of being in a certain regime from the data. These two channels help us to match the stylized facts of countercyclical and excessive return volatilities and correlations between sectors. Moreover, the model reproduces the predictability of stock returns in the data without generating consumption growth predictability. The uncertainty about the state also reduces the slope of the term structure of equity. We document that heterogeneity between the two sectors with respect to shock propagation risk can lead to highly persistent aggregate price-dividend ratios. Finally, the possibility of jumps in one sector triggering higher overall jump probabilities boosts jump risk premia while uncertainty about the regime is the reason for sizeable diffusive risk premia.

Keywords: General Equilibrium, Contagion Risk, Partial Information, Filtering, Recursive Utility

JEL Classification: G01, G12

Suggested Citation

Branger, Nicole and Grüning, Patrick and Kraft, Holger and Meinerding, Christoph and Schlag, Christian, Asset Pricing Under Uncertainty About Shock Propagation (November 18, 2013). SAFE Working Paper No. 34, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2360455 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2360455

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Patrick Grüning

Latvijas Banka ( email )

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Latvia

Holger Kraft

Goethe University Frankfurt ( email )

Faculty of Economics and Business
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Germany

Christoph Meinerding (Contact Author)

Deutsche Bundesbank ( email )

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Germany

Christian Schlag

Goethe University Frankfurt ( email )

Faculty of Economics and Business
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Frankfurt am Main, Hessen 60323
Germany

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE ( email )

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