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Title: Asset Return Predictability in a Heterogeneous Agent Equilibrium Model

Author(s): Murray Carlson, David A. Chapman, Ron Kaniel and Hong Yan

Publication Date: January 2015

Keyword(s): consumption, equilibrium, excess returns, hedging and predictable

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: We use a general equilibrium model as a laboratory for generating predictable excess returns and for assessing the properties of the estimated consumption/portfolio rules, under both the empirical and the true dynamics of excess returns. The advantage of this approach, relative to the existing literature, is that the equilibrium model delineates the precise nature of the risk/return trade-off within an optimizing setting that endogenizes return predictability. In the experiments that we consider, the estimation issues are so severe that simple unconditional consumption and portfolio rules actually outperform (in a utility cost sense) both simple and bias-corrected empirical estimates of conditionally optimal policies.

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Carlson, M, Chapman, D, Kaniel, R and Yan, H. 2015. 'Asset Return Predictability in a Heterogeneous Agent Equilibrium Model'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10328