Consumption-based asset pricing models

Annual Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 385-409

  Mehra, Rajnish ^a,b,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

borrowing constraints; equity premium puzzle; life cycle; retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882433419     PISSN: 19411367     EISSN: 19411375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-102710-144825     Document Type: Article

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