Risk and Return: An Equilibrium Approach

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Robert Whitelaw

New York University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: January 1994

Abstract

This paper develops a regime switching, pure exchange economy which duplicates many of the empirical features of the relation between the expectation and volatility of stock returns. The key features of the model are heteroscedasticity in inflation, regimes which mimic the expansionary and contractionary phases of the economy, and transitions between regimes which depend on the level of inflation. These features result in time-varying and asymmetric cross serial correlations between the conditional moments of returns.

Suggested Citation

Whitelaw, Robert F., Risk and Return: An Equilibrium Approach (January 1994). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-94-051, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1299497

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