The dual role of houses as durable consumption goods and as financial investments makes the option approach a suitable method for evaluating them. When the buyer of an owner-occupied home spends a large amount of money on a house, he pays the bill to cover not only construction costs but also...

An asset pricing model is developed in which price of consumption good is unknown and investors have a general time and state nonseparable preference. It is shown that the expected return on an asset is determined by a weighted average of market risk, inflation risk and consumption risk. The sum...

This paper investigates whether the foreign exchange risk is priced in the Pacific Basin equity markets. The test was performed in the conditional version which allows the world prices of market risk and exchange risk to vary over time. Being parsimonious, a principal component analysis is taken...