Jacobs, Kris; Pallage, Stephane; Robe, Michel A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004
This paper investigates the importance of market incompleteness by comparing the rates of risk aversion estimated from complete and incomplete markets environments. For the incomplete-markets case, we use consumption data for 50 U.S. states. While the use of state-level data is conceptually...