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Intertemporal Asset Pricing

Evidence from Germany

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Authors:
  1. Bernd Meyer

    1. Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Bernd Meyer
      Pages 1-12

  4. Intertemporal Asset Pricing: Empirical Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Overview and Description of Data

      • Bernd Meyer
      Pages 109-138

    3. Analyzing Variance Bounds of the Market Pricing Kernel

      • Bernd Meyer
      Pages 139-158

    4. Applying the Calibration Approach

      • Bernd Meyer
      Pages 159-220

    5. Evaluating the Calibrated Equilibrium Models

      • Bernd Meyer
      Pages 221-239

    6. Conclusion

      • Bernd Meyer
      Pages 241-247

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 249-289
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About this book

In the mid-eighties Mehra and Prescott showed that the risk premium earned by American stocks cannot reasonably be explained by conventional capital market models. Using time additive utility, the observed risk pre­ mium can only be explained by unrealistically high risk aversion parameters. This phenomenon is well known as the equity premium puzzle. Shortly aft­ erwards it was also observed that the risk-free rate is too low relative to the observed risk premium. This essay is the first one to analyze these puzzles in the German capital market. It starts with a thorough discussion of the available theoretical mod­ els and then goes on to perform various empirical studies on the German capital market. After discussing natural properties of the pricing kernel by which future cash flows are translated into securities prices, various multi­ period equilibrium models are investigated for their implied pricing kernels. The starting point is a representative investor who optimizes his invest­ ment and consumption policy over time. One important implication of time additive utility is the identity of relative risk aversion and the inverse in­ tertemporal elasticity of substitution. Since this identity is at odds with reality, the essay goes on to discuss recursive preferences which violate the expected utility principle but allow to separate relative risk aversion and intertemporal elasticity of substitution.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Bernd Meyer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intertemporal Asset Pricing

  • Book Subtitle: Evidence from Germany

  • Authors: Bernd Meyer

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58672-9

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1159-9Published: 10 November 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-58672-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Finance, general, Econometrics, Quantitative Finance

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