Habit Formation Heterogeneity: Implications for Aggregate Asset Pricing

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Eduard Dubin

Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Finance

Olesya V. Grishchenko

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Vasily Kartashov

Goethe University Frankfurt

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Date Written: August 14, 2017

Abstract

We explicitly solve for the aggregate asset prices in a discrete-time general-equilibrium endowment economy with two agents who differ with respect to their preferences for risk aversion and sensitivity to habit, either internal or external. We compute equilibrium quantities -- equity premium, equity return volatility, Sharpe ratio, interest rate, interest rate volatility, and asset holdings -- via a generalized algorithm of Dumas and Lyasoff (2012, JF). Generalization addresses time-nonseparability of utility function induced by habit. We find that internal habits produce equilibrium asset prices that are more consistent with historically observed aggregate prices relative to external-habit preferences.

Keywords: consumption-based asset pricing models, external habit, internal habit, heterogeneity, time nonseparability, general equilibrium, recursive solution

JEL Classification: C68, D58, D91, E21, E44, G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Dubin, Eduard and Grishchenko, Olesya V. and Kartashov, Vasily, Habit Formation Heterogeneity: Implications for Aggregate Asset Pricing (August 14, 2017). Midwest Finance Association 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2147017 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2147017

Eduard Dubin

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Vasily Kartashov

Goethe University Frankfurt ( email )

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Germany

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