This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … swap spread tends to converge to a long-run level, although trading risk can sometimes cause the spread to diverge from … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …

risk. I show that idiosyncratic risk does not change the volatility bounds at all when consumers have CRRA preferences and … that idiosyncratic risk can help to enter the bounds when idiosyncratic uncertainty depends on the aggregate state of the … individual income data and assume that agents have to consume their endowment. I find that the model does not pass the Hansen and …