This paper shows that the consumption‐based capital asset pricing model (C-CAPM) with low‐probability disaster risk rationalizes pricing errors. We find that implausible estimates of risk aversion and time preference are not puzzling if market participants expect a future catastrophic change...

Consider a bipartite network where N consumers choose to buy or not to buy M different products. This paper considers the properties of the logit fit of the N ×M array of "i-buys-j" purchase decisions, Y = [Yij ]1≤i≤N,1≤j≤M , onto a vector of known functions of consumer and product...