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Asset Return Dynamics under Bad Environment Good Environment Fundamentals

Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom

NBER Working Paper No. 15222
Issued in August 2009
NBER Program(s):   AP

We introduce a "bad environment-good environment" technology for consumption growth in a consumption- based asset pricing model. Using the preference structure from Campbell and Cochrane (1999), the model generates realistic time-varying volatility, skewness and kurtosis in fundamentals while still permitting closed-form solutions for asset prices. The model not only fits standard salient asset prices features including means and volatilities for equity returns and risk free rates, but also generates a realistic variance premium and option prices.

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