Transitory Versus Permanent Shocks: Explaining Corporate Savings and Investment

Author(s):  
Sebastian Gryglewicz ◽  
Loriano Mancini ◽  
Erwan Morellec ◽  
Enrique J. Schroth ◽  
Philip Valta
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2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Francois De Paul Silatchom

This study uses a variance decomposition technique, which doesn’t rely on the underlying economic theory, in order to implement a permanent-transitory variance decomposition of the consumption-wealth ratio. We break down the wealth variable into financial assets, tangible assets, and human assets. Using quarterly data over the last six decades, we rely on cointegration analysis as the framework for the study, in order to assess the long-term interrelation between consumption shocks, and those from each of the above mentioned wealth components. Our results indicate that wealth components tend to exhibit permanent shocks, while consumption shocks appear to be transitory. Moreover, the results also indicate a low contemporaneous correlation between shocks in consumption and the ones from financial assets, and also between shocks in consumption and the ones from tangible assets. In addition, the variance decomposition of consumption shocks seems to indicate that, over the time a significantly increasing proportion of consumption shocks is explained by financial assets.



2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Haitham A. Al-Zoubi




2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 2591-2647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Gorbenko ◽  
Ilya A. Strebulaev




2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1949-1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVEN R. GRENADIER ◽  
ANDREY MALENKO




2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caio Almeida ◽  
Diego Brandao

We study the temporal structure of risk prices, risk exposures and expected market returns for Brazil assuming the economy follows a long run risks model. The model consists on an endowment economy where aggregate consumption and dividend growth contain predictable components, and a representative agent has Epstein-Zin recursive preferences with CES specification. We show that aggregate consumption in Brazil is sufficiently predictable to generate risk premia associated with Epstein-Zin preferences in excess of traditional compensations induced by power utility. Moreover, risk compensation is dominated by permanent shocks both in the short and long run, as Epstein-Zin preferences mitigate the price of temporary shocks' risk.



Author(s):  
Vadhindran K. Rao

Prior studies have tested Covered Interest Parity (CIP) between India and the United States and found substantial deviations. The main objective of the current study is to econometrically model and explain deviations from CIP. Further, the study contributes to the literature by proposing an approach to testing CIP after allowing for country risk. A preliminary analysis suggests that there are two types of shocks that impact the CIP deviation, also referred to as the Covered Interest Differential (CID): permanent shocks and temporary shocks. The permanent shocks may be interpreted as reflecting a change in the country risk premium and the temporary shocks as reflecting transient effects and disequilibrium. The paper uses a bivariate Vector Autoregression (VAR) approach to model the joint dynamics of the CID and the forward premium, and applies the methodology of Blanchard and Quah (1989) to separate the impact of the two types of shocks. Impulse-Response analysis shows that a one standard deviation permanent shock has an immediate, substantial impact on the CID. However, forecast error variance decomposition reveals that less than 30% of the variability in the CID is caused by such permanent shocks. Further, permanent shocks account for less than 5% of the forecast error variance of the forward premium, which suggests that covered interest arbitrage activity has limited influence on the forward premium. Temporary shocks appear to be related to transient volatility in the forward premium, and such shocks initially affect both the forward premium and the CID to approximately the same extent. The manner in which the CID responds to a temporary shock suggests considerable impediments to arbitrage. However, the fact that the CID recovers at a slightly faster rate than the forward premium, especially in the initial periods, suggests that capital restrictions are not completely binding.



Author(s):  
Alexander S. Gorbenko ◽  
Ilya A. Strebulaev


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