The foreign exchange risk premium in a cash-in-advance model is investigated. Some weaknesses of the detinition of the risk premium generally used are discussed. It is shown that the primary ultimate source of foreign exchange risk is the covariance of monetary shocks with real output shocks. Several studies have assumed this covariance is zero, and hence assumed away the major source of risk i...

An overlapping generations model with long run inflation risk and a cash-in-advance constraint is used to derive a second-order accurate closed-form solution for the inflation risk premium on long-term government debt. The model predicts that the inflation risk premium depends crucially on the relative importance of nominal bonds and capital as sources of retirement consumption. In a calibrated...

This paper explores a model of bond prices where agents have diverse prior beliefs about domestic and foreign inflation. In the long run, the foreign exchange forward premium reflects expected differences in inflation, but in the short run, it depends upon the diversity of prior beliefs. If some people have diffuse priors about a country’s inflation process, then its currency commands a forward...

This paper studies the equity premium implications of a canonical New Keynesian model with investment. We find that the presence of a time-varying marginal cost dampens the expansionary impact of a positive technology shock. With a given fraction of firms standing ready to satisfy demand at predetermined prices, the variations in the marginal utility of consumption attributed to technology shoc...

Market reform of health insurance is proposed to increase coverage and reduce growth in spending by providing an incentive to choose low-cost plans. However, having a choice of plans could result in risk segmentation. Risk-adjusted payments have been proposed to address risk segmentation but are criticized as ineffective. An alternative to risk adjustment is to subsidize premiums, as in the Fed...

Premium exemption for the poor is a critical step towards achieving universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa due to the large proportion of the population living in extreme poverty who cannot pay premium. However, identifying the poor for premium exemption has been a big challenge for SSA countries. This paper is a succinct review of four methods available for identifying the poor, outli...

This paper provides a method for estimating the market risk premium that accounts for shifts in investment opportunities by explicitly modeling the underlying process governing the level of market volatility. I find that approximately 50% of the measured risk premium is related to the risk of future changes in investment opportunities. Evidence of a structural shift in the underlying volatility...

We examine the response of Medicare Advantage contracts to published quality ratings. We identify the effect of star ratings on premiums using a regression discontinuity design that exploits plausibly random variation around rating thresholds. We find that 3, 3.5, and 4-star contracts in 2009 significantly increased their 2010 monthly premiums by $20 or more relative to contracts just below the...

Chapter Outline Introduction 61 Background 63 Distributional Effects of Dynamic Pricing 65 Barriers to Dynamic Pricing 69 Unfairness of Flat Rate Pricing 71 Dynamic Pricing in Other Industries 73 Overcoming the Barriers to Dynamic Pricing 74 The Effect of Dynamic Pricing on Low-Income Consumers 75 Accommodating Potential Objections 77 Conclusions 78 Appendix: Quantifying the Hedging Cost Premiu...

in this thesis we predict asymmetric risk premium in bothvalue and growth stock portfolios. there are two competingapproaches to explain value premium: market over-reactionhypothesis based on which agents overstate future returns on growthstock, and rational market risk hypothesis that says value stocks areinherently riskier than growth stocks. rational market riskhypothesis has two different e...