Long-Run Productivity Risk: A New Hope for Production-Based Asset Pricing?

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Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce

Finance Department, Bocconi University; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: November 9, 2013

Abstract

I examine the intertemporal distribution of US productivity risk and show that the conditional mean of productivity growth is an important determinant of macro quantities and asset prices. After establishing this empirical link, I rationalize it in a production economy featuring long-run productivity risk, Epstein and Zin (1989) preferences, and investment frictions. Both convex capital adjustment costs and convex reallocation costs across consumption and investment produce an annual equity premium as sizeable as in the data.

Keywords: Production, Long-Run Risk, Asset Pricing

JEL Classification: E20, E32, G12

Suggested Citation

Croce, Mariano Massimiliano, Long-Run Productivity Risk: A New Hope for Production-Based Asset Pricing? (November 9, 2013). Journal of Monetary Economics 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1106361 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1106361

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Italy

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) ( email )

London
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