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New Goods and Asset Prices

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  • Paul Scanlon

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volatile and countercyclical---thereby raising the expected equity premium.

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  • Paul Scanlon, 2008. "New Goods and Asset Prices," 2008 Meeting Papers 927, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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