作者：HEATON, J
摘要：Using a Simulated Method of Moments approach, I evaluate a representative consumer asset pricing model in which the consumer is assumed to have time nonseparable preferences of several forms. Examining the model's implications for several moments of asset returns, I find evidence for the local substitution of consumption with habit formation occurring over longer periods of time. The interaction between these two effects is important. I also show that, when accounting for sampling error, a mod...
作者：CAILLAUD, B; JULLIEN, B; PICARD, P
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Universite Paris Nanterre
摘要：We consider a model where two agents, privately informed about their own characteristics, play a (normal form) game on behalf of two uninformed principals. We analyze the existence of precommitment effects through public announcements of contracts, in a model where agency contracts, designed ex-ante, can always be secretly renegotiated, at the ex-ante and interim stages. We show that the existence of precommitment effects depends both on the strategic complementarity of the agents' actions and...
