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TY - JOUR
T1 - Parameter learning in production economies
AU - Babiak, Mykola
AU - Kozhan, Roman
PY - 2024/5/31
Y1 - 2024/5/31
N2 - We examine how parameter learning amplifies the impact of macroeconomic shocks on equity prices and quantities in a standard production economy where a representative agent has Epstein-Zin preferences. An investor observes technology shocks that follow a regime-switching process but does not know the underlying model parameters governing the short-term and long-run perspectives of economic growth. We show that rational belief updating endogenously generates long-run risks that help explain various asset pricing facts, most prominently, dividend yield variance decomposition. The asset pricing implications of endogenous long-run risks depend crucially on the introduction of a procyclical dividend process.
AB - We examine how parameter learning amplifies the impact of macroeconomic shocks on equity prices and quantities in a standard production economy where a representative agent has Epstein-Zin preferences. An investor observes technology shocks that follow a regime-switching process but does not know the underlying model parameters governing the short-term and long-run perspectives of economic growth. We show that rational belief updating endogenously generates long-run risks that help explain various asset pricing facts, most prominently, dividend yield variance decomposition. The asset pricing implications of endogenous long-run risks depend crucially on the introduction of a procyclical dividend process.
KW - Business cycles
KW - Dividend yield variance decomposition
KW - Markov switching
KW - Parameter learning
KW - Return predictability
U2 - 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103555
DO - 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103555
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85187293798
VL - 144
JO - Journal of Monetary Economics
JF - Journal of Monetary Economics
SN - 0304-3932
M1 - 103555
ER -