Asset Pricing with Cohort?Based Trading in MBS Markets

Asset Pricing in Emerging Markets

Emerging markets provide a formidable challenge to current asset pricing theory. The reason that emerging market do not obey standard asset pricing paradigms can be traced to the lack of complete market integration of many of these markets. Importantly, to understand both the cross-section of expected returns as well as the evolution of expected returns through time in these markets, it is nece...

Endogenous trading constraints with incomplete asset markets

The present paper endogeneizes the borrowing constraints on capital holdings in an infinite horizon incomplete markets model with capital accumulation. In particular, it assumes that two types of households can break their trading arrangements by going into financial autarky, in which case they are seized from any positive asset holdings and excluded from future asset trade forever. Since we sh...

Consumption-Based Asset Pricing with Incomplete Markets

This paper shows that consumption-based asset pricing theory imposes no testable restrictions on either macroeconomic or cross-sectional data if one allows for uninsurable idiosyncratic income shocks which are persistent and not normally distributed. More precisely, this paper shows that any “observed” joint process of arbitrage-free asset prices and payoffs, aggregate consumption, and moments ...

Asset and Derivative Pricing with Incomplete Markets

This paper presents a model where uninsurable income shocks and credit constraints generate a demand for liquidity. Infinitely lived agents purchase a risky asset to self insure themselves against their individual risk. They also trade call options to diversify the aggregate risk they face. In this economy, options are not redundant but complete the market for aggregate risk. We are able to cha...

Asset Pricing Frictions in Fragmented Markets