VOLUME IV
WINTER 1996

RISK PREMIA: THE SPANISH CASE
 
FRANCISCO ALONSO
JUAN AYUSO

Banco de España. Servicio de Estudios
 
In this paper we estimate inflation risk premia within a CCAPM framework, that is to say, the relative risk aversion coefficient times the conditional cova-riance between consumption and prices. The latter has been estimated from a GARCH bivariate for quarterly data on the Spanish economy from 1970:1 to 1995:IV. The former has been chosen according to the available estimates in the literature. Our results show that 1-, 3- and 5-year inflation risk premia have been rather low (below 40 basis points) and stable.
 
Keywords: CCAPM, Fisher relation, GARCH bivariate.

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