Risk and Return in Village Economies

This paper provides a theory-based empirical framework for understanding the risk and return on productive capital assets and their allocation across activities in an economy characterized by idiosyncratic and aggregate risk and thin formal markets for real and financial assets. We apply our framewo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Samphantharak, Krislert, Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114164
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102