Asset Prices and Efficiency in a Krebs Economy

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Journal: Review of Economic Dynamics
Year: 2015
Volume: 18
Issue: 4
Pages: 957-978

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Abstract

I study the asset pricing implications and the efficiency of a tractable dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and incomplete markets along the lines of Krebs [Krebs, T., 2003. Human Capital Risk and Economic Growth. Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(2), 709-744]. Contrary to previous applications of these types of models, I find that generically the distribution of idiosyncratic shocks affects the risk premia of aggregate shocks and that the equilibrium is constrained inefficient in the sense that a planner can Pareto improve the equilibrium outcome by assigning different portfolio choices to agents. The inefficiency is caused by a 'portfolio

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RePEc Handle
repec:red:issued:13-196
Journal Field
Macro
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-29