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...

This paper studies a search model of the housing market to show how heterogeneity of beliefs affect house prices and trading volume.

We study a quantitative asset pricing model with a continuum of house types. Equilibrium house prices match the inventory of available houses and housing demand from households that differ by age, income, wealth, and access to credit markets. The shape of the house price function reflects...

This paper implements a structural model of the yield curve with data on nominal positions and survey forecasts. Bond prices are characterized in terms of investors' current portfolio holdings as well as their subjective beliefs about future bond payoffs. Risk premia measured by an...

This paper views the US financial system as a collection of partially linked, segmented asset markets. It studies the response of such a collection of markets to various shocks and uses the results to interpret recent boom and bust episodes.

Movements in the yield curve are decomposed into changes in bond supply, income and the term structure of inflation expectations.

This paper uses a temporary equilibrium framework to evaluate the impact of expectations on asset valuation. The model determines asset prices as a function of asset supply as well as the distribution of household endowments and expectations, which is matched to survey data.