2010/09/17 by Peter Ove Christensen, Kasper Larsen, Christensen, Peter Ove +1 · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #FOS: Economics and business #General Finance (q-fin.GN) #q-fin.GN
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1009.3479
arxiv created 2012/01/05 · arxiv updated 2012/01/06
In an incomplete continuous-time securities market with uncertainty generated by Brownian motions, we derive closed-form solutions for the equilibrium interest rate and market price of risk processes. The economy has a finite number of heterogeneous exponential utility investors, who receive partially unspanned income and can trade continuously on a finite time-interval in a money market account and a single risky security. Besides establishing the existence of an equilibrium, our main result shows that if the investors' unspanned income has stochastic countercyclical volatility, the resulting equilibrium can display both lower interest rates and higher risk premia compared to the Pareto efficient equilibrium in an otherwise identical complete market.