If stocks go up, investors may want to rebalance. But investors cannot all rebalance. Expected returns mustrise (or other moments must change) so that the average investor is happy to hold the total market portfolio despite its greater allocation to stocks. In this way, of market clearing can...

This paper examines the growth experience of a cross section of U.S. firms, and relates these findings to the financial returns of these firms

This paper compares wealth portfolios across countries. The household sector in the US and Canada owns much more financial wealth, and much less housing wealth, than the household sector in most of Europe. We address this fact using a calibrated two sector growth model with endogenous financial...