This paper studies the pricing implications of the sole ambiguity aversion, in a Lucas’ tree economy where asset returns are ambiguous. Abstracting from a specific functional form, we disentangle the model-specific effect from the effect of ambiguity aversion. In addition, we allow the...

We show that the introduction in a power utility function of a confidence index to sig- nal the state of the world allows for an otherwise standard asset pricing model to match the observed consumption growth volatility and excess returns with a reasonable level of relative risk aversion. Our...