Intermediary Asset Pricing: New Evidence from Many Asset Classes / Zhiguo He, Bryan Kelly, Asaf Manela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

He, Zhiguo.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kelly, Bryan.

Manela, Asaf.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21920.

NBER working paper series no. w21920

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

We find that shocks to the equity capital ratio of financial intermediaries--Primary Dealer counterparties of the New York Federal Reserve--possess significant explanatory power for crosssectional variation in expected returns. This is true not only for commonly studied equity and government bond market portfolios, but also for other more sophisticated asset classes such as corporate and sovereign bonds, derivatives, commodities, and currencies. Our intermediary capital risk factor is strongly pro-cyclical, implying counter-cyclical intermediary leverage. The price of risk for intermediary capital shocks is consistently positive and of similar magnitude when estimated separately for individual asset classes, suggesting that financial intermediaries are marginal investors in many markets and hence key to understanding asset prices.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2016.