En este trabajo se analizan los efectos sobre la actividad económica derivados de mantener un nivel elevado de deuda pública por medio de simulaciones realizadas con modelos de equilibrio general dinámico estocástico (DSGE, por sus siglas en inglés). La fuerte acumulación de deuda pública...

¿Deberían las sociedades (Gobiernos) ahorrar en momentos de expansión económica para afrontar los costes de situaciones extraordinarias, como catástrofes naturales o biológicas, o, más en general, crisis económicas? La crisis económica y social vinculada a las medidas de confinamiento...

¿Deberían las sociedades (Gobiernos) ahorrar en momentos de expansión económica para afrontar los costes de situaciones extraordinarias, como catástrofes naturales o biológicas, o, más en general, crisis económicas? La crisis económica y social vinculada a las medidas de confinamiento...

I show that relative levels of aggregate consumption and personal oil consumption provide anexcellent proxy for oil prices, and that high oil prices predict low future aggregate consumptiongrowth. Motivated by these facts, I add an oil consumption good to the long-run risk model of Bansal and...

Empirically, the conditional volatility of aggregate consumption growth varies over time. While many papers test the consumption CAPM based on realized consumption growth, little is known about how the time-variation of consumption growth volatility affects asset prices. We show that in a model...

Recent developments in intertemporal asset pricing theory focus on two sets of fundamental determinants of asset returns. Models with complete markets emphasize aggregate variables such as per capita consumption. Such models have not performed well empirically. Models with incomplete markets...

Prior research documents that individual stock returns respond to earnings differently under new accounting standards, regulations, or changes in enforcement. This paper examines whether this result extends to the aggregate stock market. We take a macro perspective and study the properties of...

What is the effect of non-tradeable idiosyncratic risk on asset-market risk premiums? Constantinides and Duffie (1996) and Mankiw (1986) have shown that risk premiums will increase if the idiosyncratic shocks become more volatile during economic contractions. We add two important ingredients to...

In this dissertation, I study the performance of asset-pricing models in explaining the cross section of expected stock returns. The finance literature has uncovered several potential failings of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). I investigate the ability of additional risk factors, which...

Duration is an important and well-established risk characteristic for fixed income securities. We use recent developments in financial statement analysis research to construct a measure of duration for equity securities. We find that the standard empirical predictions and results for fixed...