Favilukis, Jack (2013) Inequality, stock market participation, and the equity premium. Journal of Financial Economics, 107 (3). pp. 740-759. ISSN 0304-405X
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The last 30 years saw substantial increases in wealth inequality and stock market participation, smaller increases in consumption inequality and the fraction of indebted households, a decline in interest rates and the expected equity premium, as well as a prolonged stock market boom. In an incomplete markets, overlapping generations model I jointly explain these trends by the observed rise in wage inequality, decrease in participation costs, and loosening of borrowing constraints. After accounting for these changes, I show that the stock market played a major role in increasing wealth inequality. Crucially, these phenomena must be considered jointly; studying one independently leads to counterfactual predictions about others.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-financ... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Elsevier B.V. |
| Divisions: | Finance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| JEL classification: | E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment > E21 - Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Aggregate Physical and Financial Consumer Wealth E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G12 - Asset Pricing; Trading volume; Bond Interest Rates |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2012 11:59 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2024 06:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/37423 |
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