The impact of rare disasters on equity premium and term premium in a New Keynesian DSGE model is explored in the thesis. Andreasen's (2012) model with Epstein-Zin preferences, bonds and a rare disaster shock in total factor productivity process is extended by a variable capital stock and an equity-type asset. We find that the variable capital significantly changes behavior of the model, capital depreciation must be substantially increased to counter the effect of variable capital and stochastic mean of inflation increases. The model calibrated to the US economy and a high risk aversion generates 10-year term premium of 90 basis points, rare disasters increase the premium only by 3 basis points. The equity premium is 163 basis points and rare disasters increase it also only by 3 basis points. The model with a low coefficient of relative risk aversion of 5.5 generates negative risk premia. Rare disasters increase the risk premia by mere 4 basis points in comparison to a model with i.i.d. shocks. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Thesis advisor: Peter Ireland / With interest rates stuck near zero for the foreseeable future, the Federal Reserve has had to employ numerous unconventional monetary policy measures in an attempt to stimulate an economy in the after math of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. I assess the usefulness of market-based measures of expectations in gauging the effects of these seemingly extreme policy actions undertaken in an environment of unprecedented fear and uncertainty. I use a principal component analysis to combine a number of asset prices that indicate different types of market expectations; by combining these variables into one single variable indicator, this principal component variable filters out the variance among these similar variables and focuses on the common movements among the variables that can be attributed to a specific market force such as investors’ inflation expectations, overall market risk appetite, and economic growth expectations. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Economics.

Nesta tese analisamos a influência dos preços dos ativos na condução da política monetária nos países emergentes no período de 1990 a 2006. Primeiramente, investigamos a presença de bolhas racionais nos preços das ações dos países emergentes através de testes de cointegração linear e não linear. Os resultados indicam a presença de bolhas racionais em pelo menos um dos testes realizados para cada um dos países estudados. Todavia, nossos resultados permitem concluir que as bolhas tendem a ser provocadas por fatores extrínsecos e não pela relação não linear intrínseca entre os preços das ações e os dividendos. Estudamos também a relação entre os retornos de mercado, inflação esperada e crescimento/hiato do produto, através de testes individuais e em conjunto utilizando modelos em painel linear e não linear. Em ambos verificamos que as variáveis financeiras carregam informações úteis, tanto direta como indireta, a respeito da inflação e do crescimento do produto, dentro ou fora da amostra. Por fim, investigamos se os preços dos ativos devem exercer um papel central nas decisões de política monetária, através de modelos GMM (individuais e em painel) e de otimização dinâmica. Os resultados indicam que a razão dividendo-preço e a taxa de câmbio real são bons instrumentos na função de reação dos bancos centrais dos países emergentes, porém não podemos concluir que estas variáveis devam ser utilizadas como argumentos nestas funções de reação. Os resultados também indicam que, nos países que optaram pelo regime de metas de inflação estrita, a melhor opção seria não considerar explicitamente os retornos das ações em suas funções de reação. Para bancos centrais atuando em regimes de metas de inflação com política monetária acomodatícia ou outro tipo de regime, a melhor opção seria considerar os preços das ações em suas funções de reação. / We examine the relationship (if any) between stock prices and monetary policy in 22 emerging countries over the period 1990-2006. First, we investigate whether rational stock price bubbles are present in such countries using linear and nonlinear cointegration. Bubbles were found in at least one out of the six tests considered. These were likely to be caused by extrinsic factors, rather than by the intrinsic nonlinear relation between the stock prices and dividends. Secondly, we evaluate the link between market returns, expected inflation and output gap and growth by employing both individual and joint tests of linear and nonlinear panel models. We find that the stock prices convey useful information about inflation and output growth in-sample and out-of-the-sample Finally, we ask whether the stock prices are to be given a central role in monetary policy decisions using both (individual and panel) GMM models and dynamic optimization. We find that though the dividend-price ratio and the real exchange rate can provide useful information for monetary policy decisions, we should not jump to the conclusion that they have to be considered as arguments of the central banks' reaction functions. For the central banks with explicit inflation targeting, the best choice is not to consider the stock returns in their reaction functions. However, for the other regimes the best choice is to consider the stock returns in the reaction functions.

Nesta tese analisamos a influência dos preços dos ativos na condução da política monetária nos países emergentes no período de 1990 a 2006. Primeiramente, investigamos a presença de bolhas racionais nos preços das ações dos países emergentes através de testes de cointegração linear e não linear. Os resultados indicam a presença de bolhas racionais em pelo menos um dos testes realizados para cada um dos países estudados. Todavia, nossos resultados permitem concluir que as bolhas tendem a ser provocadas por fatores extrínsecos e não pela relação não linear intrínseca entre os preços das ações e os dividendos. Estudamos também a relação entre os retornos de mercado, inflação esperada e crescimento/hiato do produto, através de testes individuais e em conjunto utilizando modelos em painel linear e não linear. Em ambos verificamos que as variáveis financeiras carregam informações úteis, tanto direta como indireta, a respeito da inflação e do crescimento do produto, dentro ou fora da amostra. Por fim, investigamos se os preços dos ativos devem exercer um papel central nas decisões de política monetária, através de modelos GMM (individuais e em painel) e de otimização dinâmica. Os resultados indicam que a razão dividendo-preço e a taxa de câmbio real são bons instrumentos na função de reação dos bancos centrais dos países emergentes, porém não podemos concluir que estas variáveis devam ser utilizadas como argumentos nestas funções de reação. Os resultados também indicam que, nos países que optaram pelo regime de metas de inflação estrita, a melhor opção seria não considerar explicitamente os retornos das ações em suas funções de reação. Para bancos centrais atuando em regimes de metas de inflação com política monetária acomodatícia ou outro tipo de regime, a melhor opção seria considerar os preços das ações em suas funções de reação. / We examine the relationship (if any) between stock prices and monetary policy in 22 emerging countries over the period 1990-2006. First, we investigate whether rational stock price bubbles are present in such countries using linear and nonlinear cointegration. Bubbles were found in at least one out of the six tests considered. These were likely to be caused by extrinsic factors, rather than by the intrinsic nonlinear relation between the stock prices and dividends. Secondly, we evaluate the link between market returns, expected inflation and output gap and growth by employing both individual and joint tests of linear and nonlinear panel models. We find that the stock prices convey useful information about inflation and output growth in-sample and out-of-the-sample Finally, we ask whether the stock prices are to be given a central role in monetary policy decisions using both (individual and panel) GMM models and dynamic optimization. We find that though the dividend-price ratio and the real exchange rate can provide useful information for monetary policy decisions, we should not jump to the conclusion that they have to be considered as arguments of the central banks' reaction functions. For the central banks with explicit inflation targeting, the best choice is not to consider the stock returns in their reaction functions. However, for the other regimes the best choice is to consider the stock returns in the reaction functions.

Nesta tese analisamos a influência dos preços dos ativos na condução da política monetária nos países emergentes no período de 1990 a 2006. Primeiramente, investigamos a presença de bolhas racionais nos preços das ações dos países emergentes através de testes de cointegração linear e não linear. Os resultados indicam a presença de bolhas racionais em pelo menos um dos testes realizados para cada um dos países estudados. Todavia, nossos resultados permitem concluir que as bolhas tendem a ser provocadas por fatores extrínsecos e não pela relação não linear intrínseca entre os preços das ações e os dividendos. Estudamos também a relação entre os retornos de mercado, inflação esperada e crescimento/hiato do produto, através de testes individuais e em conjunto utilizando modelos em painel linear e não linear. Em ambos verificamos que as variáveis financeiras carregam informações úteis, tanto direta como indireta, a respeito da inflação e do crescimento do produto, dentro ou fora da amostra. Por fim, investigamos se os preços dos ativos devem exercer um papel central nas decisões de política monetária, através de modelos GMM (individuais e em painel) e de otimização dinâmica. Os resultados indicam que a razão dividendo-preço e a taxa de câmbio real são bons instrumentos na função de reação dos bancos centrais dos países emergentes, porém não podemos concluir que estas variáveis devam ser utilizadas como argumentos nestas funções de reação. Os resultados também indicam que, nos países que optaram pelo regime de metas de inflação estrita, a melhor opção seria não considerar explicitamente os retornos das ações em suas funções de reação. Para bancos centrais atuando em regimes de metas de inflação com política monetária acomodatícia ou outro tipo de regime, a melhor opção seria considerar os preços das ações em suas funções de reação. / We examine the relationship (if any) between stock prices and monetary policy in 22 emerging countries over the period 1990-2006. First, we investigate whether rational stock price bubbles are present in such countries using linear and nonlinear cointegration. Bubbles were found in at least one out of the six tests considered. These were likely to be caused by extrinsic factors, rather than by the intrinsic nonlinear relation between the stock prices and dividends. Secondly, we evaluate the link between market returns, expected inflation and output gap and growth by employing both individual and joint tests of linear and nonlinear panel models. We find that the stock prices convey useful information about inflation and output growth in-sample and out-of-the-sample Finally, we ask whether the stock prices are to be given a central role in monetary policy decisions using both (individual and panel) GMM models and dynamic optimization. We find that though the dividend-price ratio and the real exchange rate can provide useful information for monetary policy decisions, we should not jump to the conclusion that they have to be considered as arguments of the central banks' reaction functions. For the central banks with explicit inflation targeting, the best choice is not to consider the stock returns in their reaction functions. However, for the other regimes the best choice is to consider the stock returns in the reaction functions.

The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate why it is so difficult to find answer whether monetary policy should include asset prices into monetary rule and therefore increase financial stability. This is because monetary policy is potentially able to prevent the emergence of price bubbles. However, definition of bubbles is problematic itself, as well as identification, even ex-post. It appears that the inclusion of asset prices in monetary policy can reduce the variability of output, at the cost of increasing variability of inflation. The necessary condition is the ability to influence asset prices through monetary policy and early identification of imbalances. Furthermore, on empirical data from the Czech Republic and the USA is shown in the example of the 2008 crisis, that the central banks can use the warning signals from the market assets (eg. real estate market). But current monetary policy is not focused on financial stability. Macroprudential policy, combined with to some extent discretionary monetary policy represent a real and likely trajectory of future economic policy in the form of a new framework of care for financial stability.

Syftet med denna rapport är att undersöka de medelvärdesåtervändande egenskaperna i aktiekursen för noterade fastighetsbolag med utgångspunkt för bolagets extraordinära substansvärde, samt hur väl information kan användas för investeringsbeslut.Resultatet av den empiriska utfallsstudien som utförts visar på att det finns ett samband mellan aktiekurs och substansvärden, samt att en investeringsstrategi baserat på medelvärdesåtervändande egenskaper i dessa variabler fungerar. Av de tre dynamiska portföljerna som tagits fram och som strävat efter att allokera störst vikt till de bolag som fundamentalt framstått som billigast jämfört med sitt genomsnittliga substansvärde, överträffar samtliga portföljer ett aktieindex av samma bolag. / This study investigates mean reversion in publicly traded property stocks with respect to the company’s extraordinary discounts to the net asset value; furthermore, to what extent this knowledge can be applied to investment strategies.The result of the empirical survey shows that there is a relationship between the stock prices and the net asset value, also, that an investment strategy utilizing mean reversion in these two variables works. Of the three dynamic portfolios, aiming to allocate the largest portfolio weight to the fundamentally cheapest stocks, based on their current discounts and premiums to the net asset value with respect to the company average, all three outperform an index of the same companies.

The reaction of asset prices to monetary policy is essential for investors andpolicymakers. However, previous research on the area in Sweden is limited, and there isno evidence of any impact on stock market prices from repo rate changes. This study estimates how stock market indices respond to repo rate changes, including different sector indices. The repo rate is the primary interest rate tool for the Swedish central bank. The utilised methodology is based on previous studies and follows a regression methodology. The paper's findings are that some sectoral stock market indices are affected by changes in repo rate. Bank and Financial sector indexes are positivelyaffected, while Health, Technology, Construction & Materials, Mid Cap, Small Cap,and Financial Services indices are negative. The result is estimated using two different variables for expectations of repo rate changes. The results are justified using a larger sample, including all monetary policy meetings. The results do only have a slight change in coefficients. This paper can be used to further investigate the impact of monetary policy on asset prices in Sweden.

Yes / This paper develops a model of optimal choice over an array of different assets, including domestic and foreign bonds, domestic and foreign equities and domestic and foreign real money balances in order to examine the determination of the real exchange rate in the long-run. The model is tested empirically using data from the UK and the USA. The results show that all the coefficients of the model are right signed and significant and consequently financial assets may play a significant role in the determination of the real exchange rate.

We analyse the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank’s, interest setting policy in a Taylor rule framework. In particular, we examine whether or not the Riksbank has reacted to fluctuations in asset prices during the period 1995:Q1 to 2016:Q2. This is done by estimating a forward-looking Taylor rule with interest rate smoothing, augmented with stock prices, house prices and the real exchange rate, using IV GMM. In general, we find that the Riksbank’s interest setting policy is well described by a forward-looking Taylor rule with interest rate smoothing and that the use of factors as instruments, derived from a PCA, serves to alleviate the weak-identification problem that tend to plague GMM. Moreover, apart from finding evidence that the Riksbank exhibit a substantial degree of policy rate inertia and has acted so as to stabilize inflation and the real economy, we also find evidence that the Riksbank has been reacting to fluctuations in stock prices, house prices, and the real exchange rate.