This paper estimates the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption (σ) by exploiting a natural experiment provided by a change in the Indian banking legislation. The new legislation ...

Standard measures of competitive toughness fail to capture the fact that, as consumers optimize intertemporally, firms operating today compete with (as yet non-existent) businesses, which will be ...

Citations: Vissing-Jorgensen, Annette. 2002. Limited Stock Market Participation and the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution. Journal of Political Economy. (4)825-853.

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