Asset Holding and Consumption Volatility
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We investigate the possibility that limited participation in asset markets, and the stock market in particular, might explain the lack of correspondence between the sample moments of the intertemporal marginal rate of substitution and asset returns in U.K. data. We estimate ownership probabilities to separate “likely” shareholders from nonshareholders, enabling us to control for changing composition effects as well as selection into the group. We then construct estimates
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