Implications of Security Market Data for Models of Dynamic Economies

Lars Hansen and Ravi Jagannathan

No 89, NBER Technical Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We show how to use security market data to restrict the admissible region for means and standard deviations of intertemporal marginal rates of substitution (IMRS's) of consumers. Our approach is (i) nonparametric and applies to a rich class of models of dynamic economies; (ii) characterizes the duality between the mean-standard deviation frontier for IMRS's and the familiar mean-standard deviation frontier for asset returns; and (iii) exploits the restriction that IMRS's are positive random variables. The region provides a convenient summary of the sense in which asset market data are anomalous from the vantage point of intertemporal asset pricing theory.

Date: 1990-05
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Published as Hansen, Lars Peter, and Ravi Jagannathan, published as "Implications of Security Market Data for Models of Dynamic Economies," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 99, no. 2 (1991): p. 225-262.

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