Intertemporal Asset Pricing Without Consumption Data

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John Y. Campbell

Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: February 1992

Abstract

This paper proposes a new way to generalize the insights of static asset pricing theory to a multi-period setting. The paper uses a loglinear approximation to the budget constraint to substitute out consumption from a standard intertemporal asset pricing model. In a homoskedastic lognormal selling, the consumption-wealth ratio is shown to depend on the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption, while asset risk premia are determined by the coefficient of relative risk aversion. Risk premia are related to the covariances of asset returns with the market return and with news about the discounted value of all future market returns.

Suggested Citation

Campbell, John Y., Intertemporal Asset Pricing Without Consumption Data (February 1992). NBER Working Paper No. w3989, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=232074

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