Shock Elasticities and Impulse Responses

30 Pages Posted: 17 Apr 2014 Last revised: 25 Apr 2014

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Jaroslav Borovička

New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Lars Peter Hansen

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

José A. Scheinkman

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

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Date Written: April 25, 2014

Abstract

We construct shock elasticities that are pricing counterparts to impulse response functions. Recall that impulse response functions measure the importance of next-period shocks for future values of a time series. Shock elasticities measure the contributions to the price and to the expected future cash flow from changes in the exposure to a shock in the next period. They are elasticities because their measurements compute proportionate changes. We show a particularly close link between these objects in environments with Brownian information structures.

Keywords: shock elasticities, impulse response functions, risk pricing, Markov dynamics

JEL Classification: C52, C58, E44, G12

Suggested Citation

Borovička, Jaroslav and Hansen, Lars Peter and Scheinkman, José, Shock Elasticities and Impulse Responses (April 25, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2425195 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2425195

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