Short-run Risk, Business Cycle, and the Value Premium

Abstract

We jointly explain the equity and value premium variations in a model with both short-run (SRR) and long-run (LRR) consumption risk. In our empirical analysis, we find that SRR varies with the business cycle, and it has a substantial predictive power for market excess returns and the value premium—both in-sample and out-of-sample. The LRR component also differs significantly from zero, and value stocks have a larger exposure to both LRR and SRR than growth stocks. To explain these patterns in asset returns, we propose an extended LRR model. The model can be solved using log-linear approximations with economically small errors.