Asset pricing with idiosyncratic risk and overlapping generations

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 519-548

  Storesletten, Kjetil ^a,b   Telmer, Christopher I ^c   Yaron, Amir ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Idiosyncratic risk; OLG

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548680961     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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