{"title":"Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data","authors":"James Brugler, Joachim Inkmann, Adrian Rizzo","doi":"10.1111/jfir.12432","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Based on a theory of portfolio choice with non‐tradable assets, we estimate hedging demands due to background risks before and after the Great Recession for U.S households. Hedging demands related to human capital, residential property and business assets reduce financial risk‐taking, but these effects decline over the Great Recession, as does expected risk‐adjusted stock market performance. We also estimate the appropriate discount rate to compute the risk‐adjusted value of human capital, which declines by around eight percent over the period. Unlike previous literature requiring panel data with large time dimensions, our approach only requires cross‐sectional data to identify hedging demands.","PeriodicalId":47584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Financial Research","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Financial Research","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12432","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Based on a theory of portfolio choice with non‐tradable assets, we estimate hedging demands due to background risks before and after the Great Recession for U.S households. Hedging demands related to human capital, residential property and business assets reduce financial risk‐taking, but these effects decline over the Great Recession, as does expected risk‐adjusted stock market performance. We also estimate the appropriate discount rate to compute the risk‐adjusted value of human capital, which declines by around eight percent over the period. Unlike previous literature requiring panel data with large time dimensions, our approach only requires cross‐sectional data to identify hedging demands.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Financial Research(JFR) is a quarterly academic journal sponsored by the Southern Finance Association (SFA) and the Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA). It has been continuously published since 1978 and focuses on the publication of original scholarly research in various areas of finance such as investment and portfolio management, capital markets and institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and capital investment. The JFR, also known as the Journal of Financial Research, provides a platform for researchers to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of finance.