The prospect theory proposed by (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979) stated that people are risk-averse when faced with profits and risk-loving when faced with loss. Benartzi and Thaler (1995) combined the Myopic Loss Aversion and Mental Accounting in explaining the equity premium puzzle. Gneezy and...

This paper assesses the quantitative impact of ambiguity on historically observed financial asset returns and growth rates. The single agent, in a dynamic exchange economy, treats the conditional uncertainty about the consumption and dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's...

This paper shows the success of valuation risk-time‐preference shocks in Epstein-Zin utility-in resolving asset pricing puzzles rests sensitively on the way it is introduced. The specification used in the literature is at odds with several desirable properties of recursive preferences because...