Agents' Preferences, the Equity Premium, and the Consumption-Saving Trade-Off : An Application to French Data /

This paper aims to measure the risk premium on French equities during 1960-92 and to evaluate how well theoretical models based on various representations of agents' preferences can explain it. Aside from the standard, time-additive utility function with constant relative risk aversion, three o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pommeret, Aude
Other Authors: Epaulard, Anne
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/117
Online Access:Full text available on IMF