Seminar series
Date
Fri, 12 Oct 2012
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
DH 1st floor SR
Speaker
Kasper Larsen
Organisation
Carnegie Mellon University

In an incomplete continuous-time securities market with uncertainty generated by Brownian motions, we derive closed-form solutions for the equilibrium interest rate and market price of risk processes. The economy has a finite number of heterogeneous exponential utility investors, who receive partially unspanned income and can trade continuously on a finite time-interval in a money market account and a single risky security. Besides establishing the existence of an equilibrium, our main result shows that if the investors' unspanned income has stochastic countercyclical volatility, the resulting equilibrium can display both lower interest rates and higher risk premia compared to the Pareto efficient equilibrium in an otherwise identical complete market. This is joint work with Peter Ove Christensen.

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