Pump up the Volume: Income Risk and Counter-cyclical Asset Trading

Eastern Economic Journal - Tập 42 - Trang 594-610 - 2016
Gian Domenico Sarolli1
1Department of Economics and Business, Drew University, Madison, USA

Tóm tắt

This paper develops a model of consumption smoothing using financial assets, incomplete markets, and idiosyncratic shocks. It contributes to the literature on asset markets by exposing a structural break in stock trading volume in the 1970s, which in turn demonstrates a negative correlation between trading volume and aggregate output. The model is able to not only match the correct sign of this correlation but also a portion of the standard deviation of turnover.

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