Consumption Risk and the Cross Section of Expected Returns

Posted: 13 Jan 2005

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Christian Julliard

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Jonathan A. Parker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the central insight of the consumption capital asset pricing model that an asset's expected return is determined by its equilibrium risk to consumption. Rather than measure risk by the contemporaneous covariance of an asset's return and consumption growth, we measure risk by the covariance of an asset's return and consumption growth cumulated over many quarters following the return. While contemporaneous consumption risk explains little of the variation in average returns across the 25 Fama-French portfolios, our measure of ultimate consumption risk at a horizon of three years explains a large fraction of this variation.

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Julliard, Christian and Parker, Jonathan A., Consumption Risk and the Cross Section of Expected Returns. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=648054

Christian Julliard

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance ( email )

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