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

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Martijn Boons

Tilburg University

Andrea Tamoni

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick

Date Written: 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.

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

JEL Classification: E32, E44, G12

Suggested Citation

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

Martijn Boons (Contact Author)

Tilburg University ( email )

P.O. Box 90153
Tilburg, DC Noord-Brabant 5000 LE
Netherlands

Andrea Tamoni

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick ( email )

1 Washington Park
Newark, NJ 07102
United States

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