The international CAPM (ICAPM) extends the classical CAPM by adding exchange rate risks as priced factors. In the literature, both conditional and unconditional tests confirm the significance of exchange rate risk. However, typical conditional tests of the ICAPM include few instruments with...

Leading asset pricing models are inconsistent with the recent empirical evidence documenting downward sloping term structures of equity risk and premia. This paper shows that a simple general equilibrium model can accommodate such stylized facts as long as dividends endogenously obtain from a...

Recent empirical findings document downward-sloping term structures of equity return volatility and risk premia. An equilibrium model with rare disasters followed by recoveries helps reconcile theory with empirical observations. Indeed, recoveries outweigh the upward-sloping effect of...