Filtering methods are powerful tools to estimate the hidden state of a state-space model from observations available in real time. However, they are known to be highly sensitive to the presence of small misspecifications of the underlying model and to outliers in the observation process. In this...

We propose an asset pricing model featuring both limited participation and heterogeneity, in which agents randomly participate in the bond and stock markets according to a probability that depends on their non-financial income. We develop an indirect inference method to estimate our model on...

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