We study asset pricing with consumption frictions. Frictions in consumption include adjustment costs which prevent a consumer from adjusting consumption freely, due to transaction costs, commitments, search and learning costs, and psychological costs. The stochastic discount factor is determined...

We study the consumption and portfolio selection problem of an agent who faces consumption irreversibility: there is disutility from changing consumption levels. The derived preference exhibits intertemporal loss aversion toward consumption changes with the previous consumption level being the...

We examine the consumption and portfolio decisions of an agent with Friedman-Savage type period utility in continuous time. We find the Friedman-Savage consumer does not gamble, but will aggressively invest in risky activities for wealth levels that support a minimum subsistence level of...