Agents' Preferences, the Equity Premium, and the Consumption-Saving Trade-Off An Application to French Data

This paper aims to measure the risk premium on French equities during 1960-92 and to evaluate how well theoretical models based on various representations of agents' preferences can explain it. Aside from the standard, time-additive utility function with constant relative risk aversion, three o...

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Main Author: Pommeret, Aude
Other Authors: Epaulard, Anne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2001
Series:IMF Working Papers
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