We introduce habit-formation in the three-period OLG borrowing-constraint framework of Constantinides, Donaldson, and Mehra (2002) by allowing the utility of the middle-aged (old) to depend on consumption when young (middle-aged). This specification enables us to separate the effect of the two...

We analyze the history of the equity risk premium from surveys of U.S. Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) conducted every quarter from June 2000 to June 2010. The risk premium is the expected 10-year S&P 500 return relative to a 10-year U.S. Treasury bond yield. While the risk premium sharply...

The basic inability of standard theoretical models to generate a sufficiently large and variable nominal bond risk premium has been termed the "bond premium puzzle." We show that the term premium on long-term bonds in the canonical dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model used in...

This article studies the asset pricing and the business cycle implications of habit formation in a production economy with capital adjustment costs and endogenous labor supply. A specification of internal habit in the mix of consumption and leisure which minimizes the wealth effect on labor...

This paper presents a detailed empirical examination of the South African equity premium; and a quantitative theoretic exercise to test the canonical inter-temporal consumption-based asset-pricing model under power utility. Over the long run, the South African stock market produced average...

We analyze the history of the equity risk premium from surveys of U.S. Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) conducted every quarter from June 2000 to March 2014. The risk premium is the expected 10-year S&P 500 return relative to a 10-year U.S. Treasury bond yield. While the risk premium sharply...

We derive the equilibrium interest rate and risk premiums using recursive utility for jump-diffusions. Compared to to the continuous version, including jumps allows for a separate risk aversion related to jump size risk in addition to risk aversion related to the continuous part. We also...

We identify the S-Shaped consumption utility by reconciling consumption decisions with asset returns. Different from the concave-shaped utility, the S-shaped consumption utility predicts a possible negative correlation between low quantiles of consumption growth and asset returns, for which we...

We document that mortgaged homebuyers pay an 11% premium relative to all-cash buyers in residential real estate transactions. This premium far exceeds the 3\% premium implied by a realistically calibrated model of rational home sellers with transaction frictions. We obtain similar results from...