A general equilibrium production economy with heterogeneous firms and irreversible investment generates the value premium. Investment irreversibility prevents unprofitable value firms from optimally scaling down their capital stock. In contrast, profitable and fast growing - growth - firms can...

We present a tractable, linear model for the simultaneous pricing of stock and bond returns that incorporates stochastic risk aversion. In this model, analytic solutions for endogenous stock and bond prices and returns are readily calculated. After estimating the parameters of the model by GMM,...