A pervasive empirical finding for the US economy is that inflation is negatively correlated with the normalized market price of capital (Tobin's q) and growth. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of endogenous growth is developed to explain these stylized facts. In this model, human...

A less well-known empirical finding for the US and UK is a pronounced low frequency negative relationship between inflation and Tobin’s q; a normalized market price of capital. This stylized fact is explained within a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model using three key features: (i) a...

For over a decade, academic and industry economists argued that the negative correlation between returns on stocks and commodity futures was evidence that institutional investors should add commodity futures index funds as an asset class in their portfolio management strategies. Does this...