Abstract
This paper tests
whether innovations in
macroeconomic variables
are risks that are
rewarded in the stock
market. Financial
theory suggests that
the following macroeconomic
variables
should systematically
affect stock market
returns: the spread
between long and short
interest rates, expected
and unexpected inflation,
industrial production,
and the spread
between high- and lowgrade
bonds. We find
that these sources of
rsk are significantly
priced. Furthermore,
neither the market
portfolio nor aggregate
consumption are priced
separately. We also
find that oil price risk
is not separately rewarded
in the stock
market.
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