Consumption strikes back? Measuring long-run risk

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 260-302

  Hansen, Lars Peter ^a   Heaton, John C ^a   Li, Nan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROECONOMICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TRADE-OFF; VALUATION;

EID: 44249088335     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588200     Document Type: Article

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