We test whether relative risk aversion varies with wealth using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data in the U.S. Our analytical results indicate the following implications. For each household, there are two channels through which the risky share responds to wealth fluctuations, the income...

This is the first paper in the DSGE literature to match key business cycle moments and long-run equity returns in a small open economy with production. These results are achieved by introducing four modifications to a standard real business cycle model: (1) borrowing and lending costs are...

We establish the standard procedures in solving a class of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with a second-order approximation to the policy function. The innovation is that the means of exogenous shocks vary with the variances. The numerical results show that second-order...

This paper characterizes conditions under which optimal monetary and fiscal policy is time consistent in a stylized small open economy with a flexible foreign exchange rate regime. It shows that these conditions depend on the way in which leisure is assumed to enter preferences and/or on the...