We study the quantitative properties of a dynamic general equilibrium model. Agents
face both idiosyncratic and aggregate income risk, state-dependent borrowing constraints that bind
occasionally, and markets that are incomplete. Equilibrium consumption-savings plans and asset prices
are computed under various assumptions about income uncertainty. Then, we investigate whether the
model replicates two empirical observations: the high correlation between individual consumption and
individual income, and the equity premium puzzle. We find that, when the driving processes are
calibrated according to the data from wage income
in different sectors of the U.S. economy, the
results move in the direction of explaining these observations,
but we fall short of explaining the
observations quantitatively. If the incomes of agents
are assumed to be independent of each other, the
observations can be explained quantitatively.