Asset Pricing Lessons for Modeling Business Cycles / Michele Boldrin, Lawrence J. Christiano, Jonas D.M. Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boldrin, Michele.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Christiano, Lawrence J.

Fisher, Jonas D.M.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5262.

NBER working paper series no. w5262

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.

Summary:

We develop a model which accounts for the observed equity premium and average risk free rate, without implying counterfactually high risk aversion. The model also does well in accounting for business cycle phenomena. With respect to the conventional measures of business cycle volatility and comovement with output, the model does roughly as well as the standard business cycle model. On two other dimensions, the model's business cycle implications are actually improved. Its enhanced internal propagation allows it to account for the fact that there is positive persistence in output growth, and the model also provides a resolution to the 'excess sensitivity puzzle' for consumption and income. Key features of the model are habit persistence preferences, and a multisector technology with limited intersectoral mobility of factors of production.

Notes:

Print version record

September 1995.