Asset Pricing with Persistence Risk

Category: Finance Seminar
When: 19 June 2018
, 16:15
 - 17:30
Where: House of Finance, room Deutsche Bank (E.01)

Abstract

Persistence risk is an endogenous source of risk that arises when a rational agent learns about the length of business cycles. Persistence risk is positive during recessions and negative during expansions. This asymmetry, which results solely from learning about persistence, causes expected returns, return volatility, and the price of risk to rise during recessions. Persistence risk predicts future excess returns, particularly at 3- to 7-year horizons. Its predictability is strongest around business cycle peaks and troughs. We confirm the model's predictions in the data, and provide evidence that persistence risk is priced in financial markets.

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