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Macro-Finance / John H. Cochrane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cochrane, John H.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22485.
- NBER working paper series no. w22485
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- Macro-finance addresses the link between asset prices and economic fluctuations. Many models reflect the same rough idea: the market's ability to bear risk varies over time, larger in good times, and less in bad times. Models achieve this similar result by quite different mechanisms, and I contrast their strengths and weaknesses. I outline how macro-finance models may illuminate macroeconomics, by putting time-varying risk aversion, risk-bearing capacity, and precautionary savings at the center of recessions rather than variation in "the" interest rate and intertemporal substitution. I emphasize unsolved questions and profitable avenues for research.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2016.
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