Asset Pricing Explorations for Macroeconomics

John Cochrane and Lars Hansen

No 4088, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper we argue that financial data are a useful proving ground for macroeconomic models, and we explore the channels that link asset market data to such models. We use Hansen and Jagannathan's bounds on the mean and standard deviation of discount factors to survey several asset pricing puzzles. We then extend the bounds to reflect the correlation of discount factors with asset returns and to characterize conditional moments of discount factors. These characterizations help us to understand the behavior of a variety of models studied in the literature. We also incorporate borrowing constraints into the calculations. The borrowing constraints loosen the required properties of aggregate measurements of intertemporal marginal rates of substitution, but also sharpen the implications of asset market data for the marginal rates of substitution of unconstrained individuals.

Date: 1992-06
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Published as Blanchard, Olivier Jean and Stanley Fischer (eds.) NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1992. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
Published as Asset Pricing Explorations for Macroeconomics , John H. Cochrane, Lars Peter Hansen. in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1992, Volume 7 , Blanchard and Fischer. 1992

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