An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility

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John Y. Campbell

Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Stefano Giglio

Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Christopher Polk

London School of Economics

Robert Turley

Harvard University

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Date Written: August 31, 2016

Abstract

This paper studies the pricing of volatility risk using the first-order conditions of a long-term equity investor who is content to hold the aggregate equity market rather than overweighting value stocks and other equity portfolios that are attractive to short-term investors. We show that a conservative long-term investor will avoid such overweights in order to hedge against two types of deterioration in investment opportunities: declining expected stock returns, and increasing volatility. Empirically, we present novel evidence that low-frequency movements in equity volatility, tied to the default spread, are priced in the cross-section of stock returns.

Keywords: ICAPM, time-varying expected returns, stochastic volatility, value premium

JEL Classification: G12, N22

Suggested Citation

Campbell, John Y. and Giglio, Stefano and Polk, Christopher and Turley, Robert, An Intertemporal CAPM with Stochastic Volatility (August 31, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2021846 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2021846

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