Risk and Return in Village Economies

This paper provides a theory-based empirical framework for understanding the risk and return on productive capital assets and their allocation across activities in an economy characterized by idiosyncratic and aggregate risk and thin formal markets for real and financial assets. We apply our framewo...

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Main Authors: Samphantharak, Krislert (Author), Townsend, Robert (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2018-03-15T17:42:05Z.
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