Global Disaster Risk Matters
Management Science
64 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2017 Last revised: 8 Feb 2023
Date Written: September 1, 2021
Abstract
This article examines the cross-country asset pricing implications of disaster risk concerns. We
construct a new disaster risk index relying on six news-implied rare disaster proxies of Manela and Moreira (2017) and show that this index is a powerful predictor for stock returns and other asset returns in international markets both in-and out-of-sample. By further disentangling a global common component from our rare disaster index, we find evidence supporting theories that emphasize globally shared disaster risk as the important driving force of asset price fluctuations. Moreover, we conduct a return decomposition analysis and find that the global disaster risk drives stock returns primarily through the discount rate channel.
Keywords: Rare Disaster, International Stock Markets, Global Disaster, Discount Rate Channel, Partial Least Square
JEL Classification: C22, C53, G1
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