Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60684 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 254
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We explore the cross-sectional pricing of volatility risk by decomposing equity market volatility into short- and long-run components. Our finding that prices of risk are negative and significant for both volatility components implies that investors pay for insurance against increases in volatility, even if those increases have little persistence. The short-run component captures market skewness risk, which we interpret as a measure of the tightness of financial constraints. The long-run component relates closely to business cycle risk. Furthermore, a three-factor pricing model with the market return and the two volatility components compares favorably to benchmark models.
Subjects: 
asset pricing, stochastic volatility, cross section of returns
JEL: 
G10
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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