Belo, Frederico; Lin, Xiaoji; Bazdresch, Santiago - In: Journal of Political Economy 122 (2014) 1, pp. 129-129
We study the impact of labor market frictions on asset prices. In the cross section of US firms, a 10 percentage point increase in the firm’s hiring rate is associated with a 1.5 percentage point decrease in the firm’s annual risk premium. We propose an investment-based model with stochastic...