This paper embeds a staggered price feature into the standard speculative storage model of Deaton and Laroque (1996). Intermediate goods inventory speculators are added as an additional source of intertemporal linkage, which helps us to replicate the stylized facts of the observed commodity...

The equity premium puzzle holds that the coefficient of relative risk aversion estimated from the consumption based CAPM under power utility is excessively high. Moreover, estimates in the literature vary considerably across countries. We gauge the uncertainty pertaining to the country risk...

This paper investigates asset trade in a general-equilibrium complete-markets endowment economy with heterogeneous agents. It shows that standard no-trade results cease to hold when agents have heterogeneous beliefs and that substantial trade volume is generated, even in the presence of a...

Investigating stockholder consumption growth is critical in asset pricing studies, as preference and risk averse of stockholders differ from that of average households. The disagreement among households about the macroeconomic uncertainty leads to their heterogeneous stock market participation...

We present the Quarter-Millennial Anniversary Project or Q-MAP, beginning on the 240th Anniversary [July 4, 2016] of our Nation's Declaration of its Independence from the Crown, with a target date of the Quarter-Millennial Anniversary itself on July 4th, 2026. Three fundamental changes are...

In this paper, another factor that affects equity risk premium is derived from a simple classical monetary model, which basically adds back labor-leisure to a simple consumption-only consumption-based asset pricing model. If every present/future good is traded at time t=0, just as in traditional...

Matching asset price volatility in production economies is difficult. This paper shows that this difficulty can be summarized by three nested restrictions. First, matching asset price volatility requires volatile investment returns. Second, volatile investment returns require either large...

This paper evaluates the impact of the taxation system on factor costs, investment and economic activity. This is performed on the basis of detailed analysis of the Italian tax system and the production of own estimates of the user cost of capital to labour, which capture the contribution of tax...

The wealth effects on consumption are a subject of continuing interest to economists. The conventional wisdom states that fluctuations in household wealth have caused major fluctuations in economic activity. This study analyses the macroeconomic dynamics of wealth effects in India and examines...

This paper exploits information from the variance-ratios of macroeconomic variables to infer about the short and long-run components of dividend risk and inflation risk. While labor rigidity shifts dividend risk towards the short horizon, it also reveals - by means of labor-share variation - the...