The Consumption of Stockholders and Non-Stockholders

N. Gregory Mankiw and Stephen Zeldes

No 3402, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Only one-fourth of U.S. families own stock. This paper examines whether the consumption of stockholders differs from the consumption of non-stockholders and whether these differences help explain the empirical failures of the consumption-based CAPM. Household panel data are used to construct time series on the consumption of each group. The results indicate that the consumption of stockholders is more volatile than that of non-stockholders and is more highly correlated with the excess return on the stock market. These differences help explain the size of the equity premium, although they do not fully resolve the equity premium puzzle.

Date: 1990-07
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Published as Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 27, pp. 97-112, (1991).

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Journal Article: The consumption of stockholders and nonstockholders (1991)
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