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Risk Preferences and the Macroeconomic Announcement Premium

Risk Preferences and the Macroeconomic Announcement Premium This paper develops a revealed preference theory for the equity premium around macroeconomic announcements. Stock returns realized around pre‐scheduled macroeconomic announcements, such as the employment report and the FOMC statements, account for 55% of the market equity premium. We provide a characterization theorem for the set of intertemporal preferences that generates a nonnegative announcement premium. Our theory establishes that the announcement premium identifies a significant deviation from time‐separable expected utility and provides asset‐market‐based evidence for a large class of non‐expected utility models. We also provide conditions under which asset prices may rise prior to some macroeconomic announcements and exhibit a pre‐announcement drift. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Econometrica Wiley

Risk Preferences and the Macroeconomic Announcement Premium

Econometrica , Volume 86 (4) – Jul 1, 2018

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2018 The Econometric Society
ISSN
0012-9682
eISSN
1468-0262
DOI
10.3982/ECTA14607
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Abstract

This paper develops a revealed preference theory for the equity premium around macroeconomic announcements. Stock returns realized around pre‐scheduled macroeconomic announcements, such as the employment report and the FOMC statements, account for 55% of the market equity premium. We provide a characterization theorem for the set of intertemporal preferences that generates a nonnegative announcement premium. Our theory establishes that the announcement premium identifies a significant deviation from time‐separable expected utility and provides asset‐market‐based evidence for a large class of non‐expected utility models. We also provide conditions under which asset prices may rise prior to some macroeconomic announcements and exhibit a pre‐announcement drift.

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EconometricaWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2018

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