Download or read book Prices of Risky Assets in General Equilibrium written by William John Heaney and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prices of Risky Assets in General Equilibrium written by William John Heaney and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Economics Risk and Information written by Marcelo Bianconi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a balanced blend of pure finance and contract theory in the presence of risk, alternative forms of information structures, and static and dynamic frameworks. In particular, it provides an introduction to the use of stochastic methods in financial economics and finance. The following topics are covered: financial risk and asset pricing and asset returns under alternative contractual arrangements, portfolio choice, individual behavior towards risk, general equilibrium under uncertainty in discrete and continuous time settings, indivisibilities and nonconvexities in a general equilibrium context, contract theory, mechanism design and principal-agent relationships in partial and general equilibrium contexts, credit markets, and option pricing."
Download or read book General Equilibrium Option Pricing Method Theoretical and Empirical Study written by Jian Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mainly addresses the general equilibrium asset pricing method in two aspects: option pricing and variance risk premium. First, volatility smile and smirk is the famous puzzle in option pricing. Different from no arbitrage method, this book applies the general equilibrium approach in explaining the puzzle. In the presence of jump, investors impose more weights on the jump risk than the volatility risk, and as a result, investors require more jump risk premium which generates a pronounced volatility smirk. Second, based on the general equilibrium framework, this book proposes variance risk premium and empirically tests its predictive power for international stock market returns.
Download or read book The Dispersion of Asset Prices in a General Equilibrium Model with Risk aversion written by Charles John LaCivita and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Market Equilibria written by Günter Bamberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asset Pricing in General Equilibrium with Constraints written by Georgy Chabakauri and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We evaluate the impact of portfolio constraints on financial markets in a dynamic equilibrium pure exchange economy with one consumption good and heterogeneous investors. Despite numerous applications, portfolio constraints are notoriously difficult to incorporate into dynamic equilibrium analysis unless constrained investors are assumed to have logarithmic preferences. Our solution method yields new insights on the impact of constraints on stock prices without relying on this assumption. We compute the equilibrium when both investors have (identical for simplicity) CRRA preferences, one of them is unconstrained while the other faces an upper bound constraint on the proportion of wealth invested in stocks. We show that tighter constraints lead to higher price-dividend ratios and lower stock-return volatilities when the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) is less than one, and lower price-dividend ratios and higher volatilities when IES is greater than one. Moreover, in the latter case the model generates countercyclical market prices of risk and stock return volatilities, procyclical price-dividend ratios, excess volatility and other patterns consistent with empirical findings. Finally, the baseline analysis is extended to study the impact of various portfolio constraints when investors disagree on mean dividend growth rates. In particular, we explicitly characterize the equilibrium in the unconstrained benchmark economy as well as in the economy with unconstrained pessimist and optimist facing no-borrowing constraint.
Download or read book General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Under Regime Switching written by Robert J. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we have developed a continuous time general equilibrium model in an economy which has two states, a 'good' state and a 'bad' state. There are two types of shocks in the economy: small shocks and large shocks. The small shocks which only affect the individual price movements are modeled by Brownian motions. The large shocks, the states of the economy, are modeled by a continuous time Markov Chain. There are one riskless assets, n basic risky assets and contingent claims written on the risky assets in the market. The states of the economy affect the expected returns and the variances of the assets. We assume in different states, the means and variances of the instantaneous returns are different. We then investigate the asset pricing problem in general equilibrium with a representative agent who maximizes a cost function. Based on the assumption of a CRRA utility function, we have derived a partial differential equation satisfied by the representative agent's cost function. A form of the solution of the partial differential equation has been given in general equilibrium with intermediate consumption. In the case when the representative agent doesn't have intermediate consumption, we have found an explicit solution of the cost function. A closed-form expression for the riskless interest rate has been derived. We have also provided a partial differential equation satisfied by any contingent claim written on basic risky asset. The stochastic discount factor has been defined and computed in our framework. Based on the stochastic discount factor, we have provided an explanation for the equity premium puzzle.
Download or read book Funding Shortfall Risk and Asset Prices in General Equilibrium written by Majid Hasan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional investors, such as pensions and insurers, are typically constrained to hold enough wealth to be able to make their contractually promised payments to fund beneficiaries. This creates an additional risk in the economy, namely the risk of funding shortfall. We seek to explore the optimal asset allocation strategies for such institutions, the effects of funding shortfall risk on asset prices, and its ability to explain any empirical asset pricing regularities that remain anomalous in the consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM). We show that it is the more constrained institutions that matter more for asset prices, and not the ones with the largest assets under management. The constraint introduces two distinct regimes in the economy, characterising unconstrained and constrained regions, with the possibility of transitioning from the constrained to unconstrained regime, leading to regime switching in asset prices. The shadow price of the funding-ratio constraint leads to a nonlinear factor model, which can be interpreted as a linear two-factor model with the second factor is related to funding shortfall risk. The funding shortfall risk increases the conditional equity premium and Sharpe ratio, which evolve counter-cyclically, but decreases the conditional volatility, which evolves cyclically. The constrained institution holds an under-diversified portfolio and simultaneously increases its demand for the riskfree and higher-risk assets relative to lower-risk assets, inducing a bubble-like behaviour in the prices of higher-risk assets. The dynamics of contractually promised payments introduce predictability in the dynamics of conditional moments of asset return distributions. The demand for different maturity bonds, and hence the term structure of riskfree interest rates, is affected by the growth rate of aggregate dividend relative to the growth rate of contractually promised institutional payouts to end-investors. The term structure of interest rates is predominantly upward sloping, but can change shape upon shocks to the growth rate of aggregate dividend, creating a new channel through which the business cycle may affect the term structure of riskfree rates. Implied volatility exhibits a time-varying volatility smile, and the term structure of implied volatility can be both upward or downward sloping, depending on the relative growth rates of aggregate endowment and promised institutional payouts.
Download or read book Financial Markets Theory written by Emilio Barucci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-12-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of classical asset pricing theory, this textbook is the only one to address the economic foundations of financial markets theory from a mathematically rigorous standpoint and to offer a self-contained critical discussion based on empirical results. Tools for understanding the economic analysis are provided, and mathematical models are presented in discrete time/finite state space for simplicity. Examples and exercises included.
Download or read book A Computational Study on General Equilibrium Pricing of Derivative Securities written by Jacco Thijssen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyses the accuracy of replicating portfolio methods in predicting asset prices. In a two-period, general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and heterogeneous agents, a computational study is conducted under various distributional assumptions. We focus on the price of a call option on an underlying risky asset. There is evidence that the value of the (approximate) replicating portfolio is a good approximation for the general equilibrium price for CRRA preferences, but not for CARA preferences. Furthermore, there is strong evidence that the introduction of the call option reduces market incompleteness and that the price of the underlying asset is unchanged. There is, however, inconclusive evidence on the welfare effects of the option.
Download or read book Efficient myopic Asset Pricing in General Equilibrium written by Willem H. Buiter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excess volatility tests for financial market efficiency maintain the hypothesis of risk-neutrality. This permits the specification of the benchmark efficient market price as the present discounted value of expected future dividends. By departing from the risk-neutrality assumption in a stripped-down version of Lucas's general equilibrium asset pricing model, I show that asset prices determined in a competitive asset market and efficient by construction can nevertheless violate the variance bounds established under the assumption of risk neutrality. This can occur even without the problems of non-stationarity (including bubbles) and finite samples. Standard excess volatility tests are joint tests of market efficiency and risk neutrality. Failure of an asset price to pass the test may be due to the absence of risk neutrality rather than to market inefficiency
Download or read book Partial Vs General equilibrium Models of the International Capital Market written by Bernard Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay, I discuss and compare two ways of modeling international capital market equilibrium: the orthodox, general-equilibrium approach and the heterodox, partial-equilibrium CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) approach. The benchmark for this comparison is the model's ability to provide an explanation for, or take into account, a number of stylized facts of international finance: UIRP deviations, home-equity preference, PPP deviations and their persistence, consumption behavior in relation to wealth. In addition, I ask which approach is more likely in future research to help us identify the relevant state variables of the economy. None of the models satisfactorily explains the stylized facts but the CAPM approach affords the most productive avenue for empirical research in the immediate future.
Download or read book General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance written by Thorsten Hens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to give a sound economic foundation of finance. Finance is a coherent branch of applied economics that is designed to understand financial markets in order to give advice for practical financial decisions. This book argues that for a sound economic foundation of finance the famous general equilibrium model which in its modern form emphasizes the incompleteness of financial markets is well suited. The aim of the book is to demonstrate that financial markets can be meaningfully embedded into a more general system of markets including, for example, commodity markets. The interaction of these markets can be described via the well known notion of a competitive equilibrium. We argue that for a sound foundation this competitive equilibrium should be unique. In a first step we demonstrate that this essential goal cannot of be achieved based only on the rationality principle, i. e. on the assumption utility maximization of some utility function subject to the budget constraint. In particular we show that this important lack of structure is disturbing as well for the case of mean-variance utility functions which are the basis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, one of the cornerstones of finance. The final goal of our book is to give reasonable restrictions on the agents' utility functions which lead to a well determined financial markets model.
Download or read book Asset Prices in General Equilibrium with Recursive Utility and Illiquidity Induced by Transactions Costs written by Adrian Buss and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we study the effect of proportional transaction costs on consumption-portfolio decisions and asset prices in a dynamic general equilibrium economy with a financial market that has a single-period bond and two risky stocks, one of which incurs the transaction cost. Our model has multiple investors with stochastic labor income, heterogeneous beliefs, and heterogeneous Epstein-Zin-Weil utility functions. The transaction cost gives rise to endogenous variations in liquidity. We show how equilibrium in this incomplete-markets economy can be characterized and solved for in a recursive fashion. We have two main findings. One, costs for trading a stock lead to a substantial reduction in the trading volume of that stock, but have only a small effect on the trading volume of the other stock and the bond. Two, even in the presence of stochastic labor income and heterogeneous beliefs, transaction costs have only a small effect on the consumption decisions of investors, and hence, on equity risk premia and the liquidity premium.
Download or read book Financial Markets and the Real Economy written by John H. Cochrane and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial Markets and the Real Economy reviews the current academic literature on the macroeconomics of finance.
Download or read book Exploring General Equilibrium written by Fischer Black and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general equilibrium approach, Black asserts, can be used to explain most of the economy's behavior. It can explain business cycles and growth without using sticky prices, irrationality, economies of scale, or imperfect competition. It can explain the volatility of consumption, output, sales, investment, and inventories with axiomatic utility and constant-returns-to-scale production. It can explain temporary layoffs, job changes with and without intervening unemployment, and the behavior of vacancies. It can explain lower wages in part-time jobs, wages that increase rapidly with time on the job, and the forces that cause migration from poor to rich countries. Although the general equilibrium approach cannot be tested in conventional ways, it can be used to generate examples that explain stylized facts - generalized observations from the real world - that have preoccupied macroeconomists for the last decade. Black contrasts his interpretation of these facts with conventional views. Finally, he reviews a substantial body of literature on these topics.
