Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260022 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011:33
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
We show that, when allowing for general distributions of dividend growth in a Lucas economy with multiple "trees," idiosyncratic volatility will affect expected returns in ways that are not captured by the log linear approximation. We derive an exact expression for the risk premia for general distributions. Assuming growth rates are Normal Inverse Gaussian (NIG) and fitting the distribution to the data used in Mehra and Prescott (1985), the coefficient of relative risk aversion required to match the equity premium is more than halved compared to the finding in their article.
Subjects: 
diosyncratic risk
idiosyncratic volatility
risk premia
cumulants
NIG distribution
JEL: 
C13
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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