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Consumption-based modeling of long-horizon returns
Numerous studies have documented the failure of consumption-based pricing models to explain observed patterns in stock and bond returns. This failure has sometimes been attributed to frictions, transaction costs or durability. If such frictions are important, they should primarily affect the higher frequency components of asset returns. The long-swings, or lower-frequency comovements should be less affected. Consequently if transaction costs are important, tests of the consumption based asset pricing model which concentrate on lower-frequency components may be more successful.
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The equity premium puzzle and the risk-free rate puzzle at long horizons
The failure of consumption based asset pricing models to match the stochastic properties of the equity premium and the risk-free rate has been attributed by some authors to frictions, transaction costs or durability. However, such frictions would primarily affect the higher frequency data components: consumption-based pricing models that concentrate on long-horizon returns should be more successful. ; We consider three consumption-based models of the asset-pricing kernel: time-separable utility, and the models of Abel (1990) and Constantinides (1990). We estimate a vector ARCH model that ...