Department of Social Systems and Management
Discussion Paper Series

No.1283

The Equity Premium and Market Crises
in a Static Tree Economy

byYoichiro FUJII and Yutaka NAKAMURANovember 2011

UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573
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