Asset Pricing with Countercyclical Household Consumption Risk

We thank Lorenzo Garlappi, the late Rick Green, Burton Hollifield, Hanno Lustig, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Thomas Philippon, Bryan Routledge, Ken Singleton (the Editor), Chris Telmer, Sheridan Titman, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Carnegie-Mellon University, Concordia University, the EFA 2015 Annual Meeting in Vienna, the ESSFM 2015 conference in Gerzensee, the NBER 2015 summer institute, Georgetown University, New York University, the 2015 Annual Meeting of the SED, the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, the University of Southern California, and the University of Texas at Austin for their helpful advice and feedback. Constantinides received financial support from the Center for Research in Security prices, the University of Chicago, as trustee/director of the DFA group of funds, SW7 Holdings, and Cook County Illinois Investment Policy Committee, and as member of the advisory board of FTSE-Russell. Ghosh did not receive financial support from any interested party and does not hold paid or unpaid positions in relevant nonprofit organizations or profit-making entities. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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