We present a parsimonious and tractable general equilibrium model featuring acontinuum of overlapping generations, as in Blanchard (1985). In addition, we assumethat agents have standard utilities exhibiting constant relative risk aversion and canbe born with differing risk aversions and...

We study asset-pricing implications of innovation in a general-equilibrium overlapping-generations economy. Innovation increases the competitive pressure on existing firms and workers, reducing the profits of existing firms and eroding the human capital of older workers. Due to the lack of...

We study asset-pricing implications of innovation in a general-equilibrium overlapping- generations economy. Innovation increases the competitive pressure on existing firms and workers, reducing the profits of existing firms and eroding the human capital of older workers. Due to the lack of...