Risk Premia in General Equilibrium

Olaf Posch

No 3131, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper shows that non-linearities imposed by a neoclassical production function alone can generate time-varying and asymmetric risk premia over the business cycle. These (empirical) key features become relevant, and asset market implications improve substantially when we allow for non-normalities in the form of rare disasters. We employ analytical solutions of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, including a novel solution with endogenous labor supply, to obtain closed-form expressions for the risk premium in production economies. In contrast to endowment economies, the curvature of the policy functions affects the risk premium through controlling the individual’s effective risk aversion.

Keywords: risk premium; continuous-time DSGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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