to college households in terms of welfare. Chapter 2 disentangles the effect of demographic change on returns to risk …. Chapter 3 develops a method for computing transitional dynamics in heterogeneous agent models with aggregate risk if these …

From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive … relation has roots in fundamentals as higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility and as firm …