This paper investigates whether the consumption-free two-beta intertemporal capital asset-pricing model developed by Campbell and Vuolteenaho (2004) is able to solve the risk premium puzzle in the Japanese stock market over the period 1984–2002. Using the cash flow and discount rate betas as...

When agents agree to disagree about the expected growth rate of the aggregate endowment process, we study the asset price dynamics under “Keeping up with the Joneses” (KUJ) meaning that each agent maximizes the expected life-time CRRA utility of his relative consumption to the other agent in...