Habit formation and the equity-premium puzzle: a skeptical view

We argue that ceteris paribus, introducing a habit that resolves the equity premium puzzle is equivalent to increasing the coefficient of relative risk aversion. Thus, if habit is modeled subject to the constraint that the Arrow-Pratt coefficient of relative risk aversion is held at a constant "...

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Main Authors: Sussman, O, Athanasoulis, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2004