This paper discusses how unrealized return dispersion across individuals affects the equity risk premium. We specify an intertemporal capital asset pricing model with heterogeneous preferences depending on investors’ unrealized returns and uncover that unrealized return dispersion negatively...

We examine the interaction between equity returns and firms’ financing policies in a stochastic Ramsey model with heterogeneous firms. Motivated by empirical evidence, firms maintain stationary financial leverage ratios by issuing debt. We present a novel closed-form solution to this class of...

We analyze how corporate financing decisions affect stock returns in a stochastic Ramsey model. Motivated by stylized facts, we incorporate two distinct features in the model. First, the supply of equity (the number of outstanding shares) is fixed. Second, firms pursue a target leverage ratio,...