This paper analyzes how the combination of borrowing constraints and idiosyncratic risk affects the equity premium in … idiosyncratic risk increases the equity premium by 70 percent, which means that the mechanism described in Constantinides, Donaldson … the zero-borrowing constraint is a lot weaker. More surprisingly, when I introduce idiosyncratic labor income risk in an …

ability to jointly match the historical equity premium and riskless rate, and has important implications for risk sharing. We … risk channel arising from fluctuations in the fund's endowment. We use our calibrated model to study the implications of a …