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Nonparametric identification of positive eigenfunctions

Important features of certain economic models may be revealed by studying positive eigenfunctions of appropriately chosen linear operators. Examples include long-run risk-return relationships in dynamic asset pricing models and components of marginal utility in external habit formation models. This paper provides identification conditions for positive eigenfunctions in nonparametric models. Identification is achieved if the operator satisfies two mild positivity conditions and a power compactness condition. Both existence and identification are achieved under a further non-degeneracy condition. The general results are applied to obtain new identification conditions for external habit formation models and for positive eigenfunctions of pricing operators in dynamic asset pricing models.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP37/14

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Estimation: General
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Financial Econometrics
Thema
Nonparametric identification
Nonparametric models
Asset pricing
Markov processes
Perron-Frobenius theory
Shape restrictions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Christensen, Timothy M.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2014.3714
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Christensen, Timothy M.
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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