Agents’ Preferences, the Equity Premium, and the Consumption-Saving Trade-Off: An Application to French Data
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Summary:
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 other utility functions are reviewed: a recursive utility function, a habit formation utility function, and a utility function that accounts for the interdependence of preferences. Both calibration and econometric estimations show that none of the studied marginal changes in the representation of agents' preferences are sufficient to solve both the equity premium puzzle and the risk-free rate puzzle.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2001/117
Subject:
Consumption Econometric analysis Estimation techniques Financial institutions National accounts Stocks Tax allowances Taxes Treasury bills and bonds
English
Publication Date:
August 1, 2001
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451854015/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA1172001
Pages:
36
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