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The saving, human wealth and asset pricing nexus: Evidence from around the world

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  • Roy, Rahul
  • Shijin, Santhakumar

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The present study examines the dynamics of the saving, human wealth and asset pricing nexus across developed and emerging economies. We introduce two equilibrium asset pricing models in an intertemporal capital asset pricing framework, including the priced factors human wealth and market portfolio in the first framework and the saving and market portfolio in the second framework. Both asset pricing frameworks consist of two-factor, four-factor and five-factor asset pricing models. We control for size and value factors in the four-factor model and size, value and momentum factors in the five-factor model. The IV-GMM estimation and GRS test results indicate that human wealth and market portfolio for the first framework and saving and market portfolio in the second framework are primary priced factors in explaining the average returns for developed economies and the aggregate level. On the contrary, both frameworks fail to yield significant results explaining the average returns for emerging economies.

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  • Roy, Rahul & Shijin, Santhakumar, 2022. "The saving, human wealth and asset pricing nexus: Evidence from around the world," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 46(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecosys:v:46:y:2022:i:2:s0939362522000395
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2022.100977
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    Keywords

    Aggregate wealth; Asset pricing; Developed and emerging economies; Human wealth; Saving;
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    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • O5 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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