Asset pricing with concentrated ownership of capital

Kevin Lansing

No 2011/18, Working Paper from Norges Bank

Abstract: This paper investigates how concentrated ownership of capital influences the pricing of risky assets in a production economy. The model is designed to approximate the skewed distribution of wealth and income in U.S. data. I show that concentrated ownership significantly magnifies the equity risk premium relative to an otherwise similar representative-agent economy because the capital owners' consumption is more strongly linked to volatile dividends from equity. A temporary shock to the technology for producing new capital (an "investment shock") causes dividend growth to be much more volatile than aggregate consumption growth, as in long-run U.S. data. The investment shock can also be interpreted as a depreciation shock, or more generally, a financial friction that affects the supply of new capital. Under power utility with a risk aversion coeffecient of 3.5, the model can roughly match the first and second moments of key asset pricing variables in long-run U.S. data, including the historical equity risk premium. About one-half of the model equity premium is attributable to the investment shock while the other half is attributable to a standard productivity shock. On the macro side, the model performs reasonably well in matching the business cycle moments of aggregate variables, including the pro-cyclical movement of capital's share of total income in U.S. data.

Keywords: Asset pricing; Equity premium; Term premium; Investment shocks; Real business cycles; Wealth inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E25 E32 E44 G12 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2011-12-22
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