Common variation in the prices of European corporate debt may not always be associated with a rational response to an increase in the relative importance of a macroeconomic risk factor. Building on Campbell’s ICAPM framework, we show that risk premia of assets with nonlognormal return...

A number of existing studies have concluded that risk sharing allocations supported by competitive, incomplete markets equilibria are quantitatively close to first-best. Equilibrium asset prices in these models have been difficult to distinguish from those associated with a complete markets...