Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184786 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 835
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
This paper assessed the quantitative impact of ambiguity on historically observed financial asset returns and growth rates. The single agent, in a dynamic exchange economy, treats the conditional uncertainty about the consumption and dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk-free rate in data and measure the uncertainty each period conditional on the actual, observed histroy of (U.S.) macroeconomic growth outcomes. Ambiguity aversion accentuates the conditional uncertainty endogenously in a dynamic way, depending on the history; e.g., it increases during recessions. We show the model implied time series of asset returns substantially match the first and second conditional moments of observed return dynamics. In particular, we find the time-series properties of our mdoel generated equity premium, which may be regarded as an index measure of revealed uncertainty, relates closely to those of the macroeconomic uncertainty indices developed recently in Jurado, Ludvigson, and Ng (2015) and Carriero, Clark, and Marcellino (2017).
Subjects: 
Ambiguity aversion
Asset pricing
Equity premium puzzle
Time-varying uncertainty
Uncertainty shocks
JEL: 
G12
E21
D81
C63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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