Uncertainty plays a key role in economics, finance, and decision sciences. Financial markets, in particular derivative markets, provide fertile ground for understanding how perceptions of economic uncertainty and cashflow risk manifest themselves in asset prices. We demonstrate that the variance...

We estimate a consumption-based asset pricing model with Epstein-Zin (1989) preferences. The intertemporal marginal rate of substitution (IMRS) depends on the return on total wealth. Rather than use the stock market as a proxy for wealth, we construct a more comprehensive return: we include the...