The risk-neutral density is a fundamental concept in pricing financial derivatives, risk management, and assessing financial markets' perceptions over significant political or economic events. In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric method for estimating the risk-neutral density using...

Compared to the distributions of earnings, the distributions of wealth in the US and many other countries are strikingly concentrated on the top and skewed to the right. To explain the income and wealth inequality, we provide a tractable heterogeneous‐agent model with incomplete markets in...

Many structural econometric models include latent variables on whose probability distributions one may wish to place minimal restrictions. Leading examples in panel data models are individual-specific variables sometimes treated as "fixed effects" and, in dynamic models, initial conditions. This...