We study how the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis affected consumption smoothing across households in Korean prefectures. The crisis caused the cross-sectional mean and volatility of household consumption to fall substantially. We show that such falls bias two standard tests towards rejecting...

It is shown that in a market modeled by a vector-valued semimartingale, when we choose the wealth process of an admissible self-financing strategy as a numeraire such that the historical probability measure becomes a martingale measure, then this numeraire must be the wealth process of a growth...