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A Note on Entrepreneurial Risk, Capital Market Imperfections, and Heterogeneity

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  • Yulei Luo

    (University of Hong Kong)

  • Liutang Gong

    (Peking University)

  • Heng-fu Zou

    (The World Bank
    CEMA at the Central University of Finance and Economics
    Shenzhen University
    IAS at Wuhan University)

Abstract

Empirical evidence shows that entrepreneurs hold a large fraction of wealth, have higher saving rates than workers, and face substantial uninsurable entrepreneurial and investment risks. This paper constructs a heterogeneous-agent general equilibrium model with uninsurable entrepreneurial risk and capital market imperfections to explore the implications of uninsurable entrepreneurial risk for wealth distribution and aggregate activity in an incomplete market economy. It is shown that entrepreurial risk can substantially affect both the wealth distribution and the macroeconomy.

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  • Yulei Luo & Liutang Gong & Heng-fu Zou, 2010. "A Note on Entrepreneurial Risk, Capital Market Imperfections, and Heterogeneity," CEMA Working Papers 409, China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics.
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