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Technological Growth, Asset Pricing, and Consumption Risk

In this paper we develop a theoretical model in order to understand co-movements between asset returns and consumption over short and long horizons. We present an intertemporal general equilibrium model featuring two types of shocks: small, frequent and disembodied shocks to productivity and large technological innovations, which are embodied into new vintages of the capital stock. The latter types of shocks affect the economy with lags, since firms need to invest before they can take advantage of the new technologies. The delayed reaction of consumption to a large technological innovation helps us explain why short run correlations between returns and consumption growth are weaker than their long run counterparts. Because of this effect, the model can shed some light into the economic mechanisms that make consumption based asset pricing more successful at lower frequencies.

Production based asset pricing Continuous time methods irreversible investment technology consumption risk

Stavros Panageas Jianfeng Yu

The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

国际会议

2008年中国金融国际年会

大连

英文

1-58

2008-07-02(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)