EconFin Reading Group

Heterogeneous Agents Reading Group

May – Jun 2022

The main task of this reading group is to review and discuss the literature on heterogeneous agents in asset pricing to do research in this area.

Schedule: Saturday, 6 pm – 7.30 pm (Lima time)

  • (30 min) Presentation paper 1
  • (30 min) Presentation paper 2
  • (30 min) Discussion
SessionPaperPresented by
Session 1 (May 7)Introduction (15 min)
Panageas (2020)
Hamilton Galindo
Hamilton Galindo (PDF)
Session 2 (May 21)Dumas (1989)
Wang (1996)
Hamilton Galindo (PDF)
Hamilton Galindo (PDF)
Session 3 (May 28)Chan and Kogan (2002)
Kogan et al. (2007)
Gianfranco Quequezana
Angie Huillca
Session 4 (June 04)Xiouros and Zapatero (2010)
Roche (2011)
Rodney Menezes
Jean Taipe
Session 5 (June 11)Vasicek (2005)
Vasicek (2013)
Evelyn Sanchez
Cesar Ramos
Session 6 (June 18)Schneider (2021)
Galindo (2022)
Michael Medina
Hamilton Galindo

Reference
– Bhamra, Harjoat S. and Raman Uppal (2014), ‘Asset Prices with Heterogeneity in Preferences and Beliefs’, The Review of Financial Studies 27(2), 519–580.
– Chan, Yeung Lewis and Leonid Kogan (2002), ‘Catching Up with the Joneses: Heterogeneous Preferences and the Dynamics of Asset Prices’, journal of political economy p. 31.
– Dumas, Bernard (1989), ‘Two-Person Dynamic Equilibrium in the Capital Market’, The Review of Financial Studies 2(2), 157–188.
– Galindo, Hamilton (2022), ‘A Production Economy with Heterogeneous Habit Preferences’, Working Paper.
– Heaton, John and Deborah Lucas (1995), ‘The importance of investor heterogeneity and financial market imperfections for the behavior of asset prices’, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy (42).
– Kogan, Leonid, Igor Makarov and Raman Uppal (2007), ‘The equity risk premium and the riskfree rate in an economy with borrowing constraints,’ Mathematics and Financial Economics 1(1), 1–19.
– Panageas, Stavros (2020), The Implications of Heterogeneity and Inequality for Asset Pricing, Technical Report w26974, National Bureau of Economic Research.
– Roche, Hervé (2011), ‘Asset prices in an exchange economy when agents have heterogeneous homothetic recursive preferences and no risk-free bond is available’, p. 17.
– Schneider, Andres (2021), ‘Risk Sharing and the Term Structure of Interest Rates’, The Journal of Finance p. 69.
– Vasicek, Oldrich Alfons (2005), ‘The economics of interest rates’, Journal of Financial Economics p. 15.
– Vasicek, Oldrich Alfons (2013), ‘General equilibrium with heterogeneous participants and discrete consumption times’, Journal of Financial Economics 108(3), 608–614.
– Wang, Jiang (1996), ‘The term structure of interest rates in a pure exchange economy with heterogeneous investors’, Journal of Financial Economics p. 36.
– Xiouros, Costas and Fernando Zapatero (2010), ‘The Representative Agent of an Economy with External Habit Formation and Heterogeneous Risk Aversion’, The Review of Financial Studies 23(8), 3017–3047.