Chapter 1: Economics and the Equity Market: A Microeconomics Course Application -- Chapter 2: Liquidity, Trading, and Price Determination in Equity Markets: A Finance Course Application -- Chapter 3: Liquidity and the Impact of Information Shocks: A Macroeconomics Course Application -- Chapter...

According to empirical studies, there is a systematic pattern in the temporal behavior of asset returns and this is related to the business cycle. We propose a simple model that captures this behavior. This model is built around a state dependent preference structure where the state dependency...

In an exchange economy with endowment inequality, we investigate how preferences with external habits affect the equity risk premium. We show that the dynamics of external additive habits with wealth inequality are complex when a background risk is present. It is ambiguous whether wealth...