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Horizon-Specific Macroeconomic Risks and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns


Martijn Boons


New University of Lisbon - Nova School of Business and Economics

Andrea Tamoni


London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

December 15, 2015


Abstract:     
We show that decomposing macroeconomic risks across horizon is key to uncover a tight link between risk premia and the real economy. Exposure in four-year returns to innovations in macroeconomic growth and volatility with a matching half-life of over four years is priced in a wide variety of test assets. Shorter-term risks are not priced. Importantly, we show that long-term growth and volatility capture largely common risk. We then propose a single, long-term, macroeconomic risk factor which drives out standard long-run risk measures and performs similar to the Fama-French three-factor model in cross-sectional tests. Our empirical results strongly support the use of long-horizon betas to measure macroeconomic risks in asset returns.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 70

Keywords: Cross-sectional tests, firm-level stock returns, long horizons, macroeconomic risks, consumption, linear multifactor models

JEL Classification: E32, E44, G12


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Date posted: October 30, 2014 ; Last revised: April 14, 2016

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Boons, Martijn and Tamoni, Andrea, Horizon-Specific Macroeconomic Risks and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns (December 15, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2516251 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2516251

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Martijn Boons (Contact Author)
New University of Lisbon - Nova School of Business and Economics ( email )
Campus de Campolide
Lisbon, 1099-032
Portugal
Andrea Tamoni
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) ( email )
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
02079557303 (Phone)
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