Acharya, Sushant; Dogra, Keshav; Singh, Sanjay R. - 2022 - Last updated: January 14, 2022
We formalize the idea that the financial sector can be a source of non-fundamental risk. Households' desire to hedge against price volatility can generate price volatility in equilibrium, even absent fundamental risk. Fearing that asset prices may fall, risk-averse households demand safe assets...