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Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance
Chetty, Raj - 2013
This paper characterizes the welfare gains from redistributive taxation and social insurance in an environment where the private sector provides partial insurance. We analyze stylized models in which adverse selection, pre-existing information, or imperfect optimization in private insurance...
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Health and Mortality Delta : Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice
Koijen, Ralph S. J. - 2011
We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to...
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Optimal investment and consumption under partial information
Lindensjö, Kristoffer - In: Mathematical methods of operations research 83 (2016) 1, pp. 87-107
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The Economics of Hedge Funds : Alpha, Fees, Leverage, and Valuation
Lan, Yingcong - 2011
Hedge fund managers are compensated via management fees on the assets under management (AUM) and incentive fees indexed to the high-water mark (HWM). We study the effects of managerial skills (alpha) and compensation on dynamic leverage choices and the valuation of fees and investors' payoffs....
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Transition to FDI Openness : Reconciling Theory and Evidence
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2011
conclusive evidence that they are positive, as theory predicts. This paper shows that the lack of empirical evidence is … consistent with theory if countries are in transition to FDI openness. Anticipated welfare gains lead to temporary declines in … reconciliation of theory and evidence is accomplished with a multicountry dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized with data …
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A Model of Momentum
Liu, Laura Xiaolei - 2011
Optimal investment of firms implies that expected stock returns are tied with the expected marginal benefit of investment divided by the marginal cost of investment. Winners have higher expected growth and expected marginal productivity (two major components of the marginal benefit of...
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Credit Spreads as Predictors of Real-Time Economic Activity : A Bayesian Model-Averaging Approach
Faust, Jon - 2011
Employing a large number of real and financial indicators, we use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to forecast real-time measures of economic activity. Importantly, the predictor set includes option-adjusted credit spread indexes based on bond portfolios sorted by maturity and credit risk as...
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Betting Against Beta
Frazzini, Andrea - 2010
We present a model in which some investors are prohibited from using leverage and other investors' leverage is limited by margin requirements. The former investors bid up high-beta assets while the latter agents trade to profit from this, but must de-lever when they hit their margin constraints....
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The Inefficiency of Refinancing : Why Prepayment Penalties are Good for Risky Borrowers
Mayer, Christopher J. - 2010
This paper explores the practice of mortgage refinancing in a dynamic competitive lending model with risky borrowers and costly default. We show that prepayment penalties improve welfare by ensuring longer-term lending contracts, which prevents the mortgage pools from becoming disproportionately...
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Valuing Identity
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
Affirmative action policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the welfare economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, compete for positions in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient...
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