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Asset prices and liquidity in an exchange economy

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  • Ricardo Lagos

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I develop an asset-pricing model in which financial assets are valued for their liquidity - the extent to which they are useful in facilitating exchange - as well as for being claims to streams of consumption goods. The implications for average asset returns, the equity-premium puzzle and the risk-free rate puzzle, are explored in a version of the model that nests the work of Mehra and Prescott (1985).

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in its series Staff Report with number 373.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Keywords: Asset pricing ; Liquidity (Economics);

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