We review the labor market implications of recent real-business-cycle models that successfully replicate the empirical equity premium. We document the fact that all models considered in this survey with the exception of Boldrin, Christiano, and Fisher (2001) imply a negative correlation of...

This paper investigates monthly liquidity in FTSE 100 equity index in London Stock Exchange over the period 1986 to 2005. The relationship between excess returns, order flow, dividend yields and earning-price ratio was examined using GARCH (1,1). The variables found insignificant, but the...

Whether fat tails exist in the distribution of venture capital and private equity returns affects how investors view the attractiveness of such investments, especially if means or variances are potentially infinite. Using fund performance data, I propose and test a smooth double Pareto...