Consumption Habit and Equity Premium in the G7 Countries

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Consumption Habit and Equity Premium in the G7 Countries

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Olivier Allais
Loic Cadiou
Stephane Dees

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The consumption capital asset pricing model (C-CAPM) fails to explain the observed equity premia apart from considering implausible values of the risk aversion coefficient. This equity premium puzzle has been attributed in particular to the time-separability of the consumers' preferences. This paper investigates empirically the ability of the C-CAPM to solve this puzzle once assumed that consumption behaviour presents habit formation. From the estimation of the model's parameters for the G7 countries, we show that the consumption model with habit formation is able to account for financial asset returns with more reasonable preference.

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C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Estimation
E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing

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Olivier Allais & Loic Cadiou & Stephane Dees, 2001. "Defining Consumption Behavior in a Multi-Country Model," Working Papers 2001-02, CEPII research center. [Downloadable!]
Stuart Hyde & Mohamed Sherif, 2005. "Don’t break the habit: structural stability tests of consumption asset pricing models in the UK," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 12(5), pages 289-296, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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