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Complete markets strikes back : Revisiting risk sharing tests under discount rate heterogeneity
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dc.contributor.author | Sun, Gang | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-16T16:31:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-16T16:31:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sun , G 2013 ' Complete markets strikes back : Revisiting risk sharing tests under discount rate heterogeneity ' School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper 1317 , no. 1317 , University of St Andrews . | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-4031 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 34763845 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 3eb6c1bd-f63a-4f2e-a080-de5268419cbb | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4093 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent risk sharing tests strongly reject the hypothesis of complete markets, because in the data: (1) the individual consumption comoves with income and (2) the consumption dispersion increases over the life cycle. In this paper, I revisit the implications of these risk sharing tests in the context of a complete market model with discount rate heterogeneity, which is extended to introduce the individual choices of effort in education. I find that a complete market model with discount rate heterogeneity can pass both types of the risk sharing tests. The endogenous positive correlation between income growth rate and patience makes the individual consumption comove with income, even if the markets are complete. I also show that this model is quantitatively admissible to account for both the observed comovement of consumption and income and the increase of consumption dispersion over the life cycle. | |
dc.format.extent | 23 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper 1317 | en |
dc.rights | (c) 2013 the author | en |
dc.subject | Complete markets | en |
dc.subject | Discount heterogeneity | en |
dc.subject | Risk sharing | en |
dc.subject | HF Commerce | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HF | en |
dc.title | Complete markets strikes back : Revisiting risk sharing tests under discount rate heterogeneity | en |
dc.type | Working or discussion paper | en |
dc.description.version | Postprint | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Economics and Finance | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/economics/repecfiles/4/1317.pdf | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://ideas.repec.org/p/san/wpecon/1317.html | en |
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