A Revealed Preference Analysis of Asset Pricing Under Recursive Utility

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Larry G. Epstein

University of Rochester - Department of Economics

Angelo Melino

University of Toronto

Date Written: November 1993

Abstract

This paper considers a representative agent model of asset prices based on a recursive utility specification. A constant elasticity of intertemporal substitution is assumed but the risk-preference component of utility is restricted only by qualitative, nonparametric regularity conditions. The principal contribution is to determine the exhaustive implications of this semiparametric recursive utility model for the one-step ahead joint probability distribution for consumption growth and asset returns.

Suggested Citation

Epstein, Larry and Melino, Angelo, A Revealed Preference Analysis of Asset Pricing Under Recursive Utility (November 1993). NBER Working Paper No. w4524, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=481481

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