In this dissertation I explain the relationship among inflation volatility, rationalbubbles, and asset prices. In addition, I investigate the transmission of asset prices andvolatility among countries.In the second chapter, which deals with the relationship between inflation volatilityand asset...

We analyze the pricing of a productive asset in a class of dynamic exchange economies with heterogeneous, infinitely-lived agents, and self-enforcing intertemporal trades. Individual incomes fluctuate and are correlated; preferences, dividends and aggregate income are fixed. Almost all economies...

Did monetary ease in the 1980s cause Japan's bubble, as is often suggested? Drawing on both a new cross-national consideration of the monetary policy-asset price linkage and a re-examination of what actually occurred in Japan 1985-1990, I conclude the bubble was just as likely to occur whatever...

Šiame darbe tikrinama efektyviosios rinkos hipotezė ir ieškomas ARIMA modelis pasirinktai akcijų kainų eilutei. Pakankama akcijų rinkos efektyvumo sąlyga yra atsitiktinio klaidžiojimo hipotezės galiojimas. Dėl to, naudojant autokoreliacijos koeficientų, Box – Pierce Q –...

We use the consumption-based asset pricing model with habit formation to study the predictability and cross-section of returns from the international equity markets. We find that the predictability of returns from many developed countries' equity markets is explained in part by changing prices...

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices in a pure-exchange economy with a representative agent who is averse not only to risk but...

The trade-off between price stability and output stabilization is in the centre of monetary policy-making. This trade-off enters many macroeconomic models as the central bank is assumed to minimize some loss function consisting of inflation deviations and output deviations from some specific...

There has been an increasing demand for involving stakeholders in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to successfully involve the stakeholders of an infrastructure...

Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...