By Force of Habit A Consumption‐Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior pdf download

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We present a consumption-based model that explains a wide vari-ety of dynamic asset pricing phenomena, including the procyclical variation of stock prices, the long-horizon predictability of excess stock returns, and the countercyclical variation of stock market vol-atility. The model captures much of the history of stock prices from consumption data. It explains the short- and long-run equity pre-mium puzzles despite a low and constant risk-free rate. The results are essentially the same whether we model stocks as a claim to the consumption stream or as a claim to volatile dividends poorly cor-related with consumption. The model is driven by an indepen-dently and identically distributed consumption growth process and adds a slow-moving external habit to the standard power utility function. These features generate slow countercyclical variation in risk premia. The model posits a fundamentally novel description of risk premia: Investors fear stocks primarily because they do poorly in recessions unrelated to the risks of long-run average con-sumption growth.

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