Abstract: This paper investigates whether various components of wealth affect real consumption asymmetrically through a threshold adjustment model. The empirical findings for the U.S. show that only stock market assets, financial assets including stock market assets, and household net assets exert a practical wealth effect on consumption expenditure. By contrast, financial assets excluding stoc...

It is widely thought that incomes risks can be shared by trading in financial assets. But financial assets typically carry some risk idiosyncratic to them, hence, disposing incomes risk using financial assets will involve buying into the inherent idiosyncratic risk. However, standard theory argues that diversification would reduce the inconvenience of idiosyncratic risk to arbitrarily low level...

In this study, we use a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model to investigate the household portfolio channel of monetary and credit shocks transmission in Iran. In this regard, we developed a canonical New Keynesian DSGE model with financial and banking sectors. The model is estimated by Bayesian method for the period 1990-2012. The result showed that the current and expected pric...

Outline Introduction Semi-parametric dynamic copula Motivation Local likelihood estimation Variance of the estimator Bias of the estimator Bandwidth selection Estimation of joint likelihood Modeling of marginal distributions Simulations and applications Simulations Empirical example Conclusions Problems and Solutions Problems Modeling dependence is critical for financial time series Model volat...

Liquid assets play an important role in the financial system. They are generally defined as financial assets, such as cash and government securities, that can be readily used to fund payments, even in stressed market conditions. These assets are central to liquidity and credit risk management in financial markets. They are commonly used as collateral to obtain short-term funding and manage coun...

Unlike conditional volatility that has been investigated intensively, conditional correlations between financial assets have received only little attention in literature. Researchers have, for so long, focused mainly on estimating returns and risk, and have assumed that the correlations are constant and have therefore paid less attention on them. However, recent studies uncover that such correl...

Agents and endowments. There is a continuum of ex ante identical households, a large number of perfectly competitive financial intermediaries, and a government. As in a typical cash-inadvance economy each household splits into a worker and a shopper each period. Each period each household receives an idiosyncratic endowment y ∈ [0,∞) that is IID in the population and IID over time with density ...

The system of distributing financial aid dollars using needs analysis formulae implicitly imposes a financial aid tax on assets. Existing studies provide mixed evidence of the influence of this implicit tax on assets on wealth accumulation. This paper attempts to contribute to the literature on this topic by examining the sensitivity of results to various assumptions, specifications, and catego...

This paper introduces a framework to study the links between the supply of liquid assets for the financial market and the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties—their usefulness as collateral or media of exchange in financial transactions— affect assets’ values and interest rates, with consequences on firm entry, production, aggregate productivity, a...

We examine the optimal consumption and portfolio choice of an investor having an initial wealth endowment and an uncertain stream of income from non-traded assets. The income stream is not spanned by traded assets, and the investor is not allowed to borrow against future income, so the nancial market is incomplete. We solve the corresponding stochastic control problem numerically with the Marko...