Getting to the Core: Inflation Risks Within and Across Asset Classes / Xiang Fang, Yang Liu, Nikolai Roussanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fang, Xiang.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Liu, Yang.

Roussanov, Nikolai.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30169.

NBER working paper series no. w30169

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

Do "real" assets protect against inflation? Core inflation betas of stocks are negative while energy betas are positive; currencies, commodities, and real estate also mostly hedge against energy inflation but not core. These hedging properties are reflected in the prices of inflation risks: only core inflation carries a negative risk premium, and its magnitude is consistent both within and across asset classes, uniquely among macroeconomic risk factors. While high core inflation tends to be followed by low real output, consumption, and dividend payouts, it impacts asset prices through both cash-flow and discount rate channels. The relative contribution of core and energy changes over time, helping explain the time-varying correlation between stock and bond returns. A two-sector New Keynesian model qualitatively accounts for these facts and implies that the changing stock-bond correlation can be attributed to the shifting importance of supply and demand shocks in driving energy inflation over time.

Notes:

Print version record

June 2022.