We study general equilibrium asset prices in a multi-period endowment economy when agents' risk aversion is allowed to … depend on the maturity of the risk. We find horizon-dependent riskaversion preferences generate a decreasing term structure … of risk premia if and only if volatility is stochastic. Our model can thus justify the recent empirical results on the …

regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … (“uncertainty”), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …. The effect of monetary policy on risk aversion is also apparent in regressions using high frequency data …