Capital utilization, market power, and the pricing of investment shocks

Lorenzo Garlappi and Zhongzhi Song

Journal of Financial Economics, 2017, vol. 126, issue 3, 447-470

Abstract: Capital utilization and market power crucially affect asset prices in an economy exposed to shocks that improve real investment opportunities through capital-embodied technological innovations. We embed these two mechanisms in a standard general equilibrium model and show that (i) the price of risk for investment shocks is negative under fixed capital utilization, but positive under sufficiently flexible capital utilization, and (ii) the equity return exposure to investment shocks is negative under perfect competition, but positive under high market power. We further show that, high market power, persistent components in technology growth, and a strong preference for early resolution of uncertainty are jointly important to quantitatively match the observed equity risk premium.

Keywords: Investment shocks; Capital utilization; Market power; Risk premium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 G12 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2016.11.006

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