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Risk Aversion and Precautionary Savings in Dynamic Settings
Bommier, Antoine; Le Grand, Francois - 2016
result is derived without specifying income uncertainty, which can follow any kind of stochastically monotone process, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126338
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Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany
Piracha, Matloob; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600679
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Precautionary savings by natives and immigrants in Germany
Piracha, Matloob; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277847
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Firm Uncertainty and Household Spending
Alfaro, Iván - 2020
uncertainty leads households to change their average monthly spending over the next 6-months by -0.95 percent. This negative … second-moment firm uncertainty effect is larger than the positive first-moment effect of firm stock returns. The employer … asymmetric response to `good' and `bad' uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826257
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Precautionary savings by natives and immigrants in Germany
Piracha, Matloob; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630070
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Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany
Piracha, Matloob; Zhu, Yu - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018741
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The Effect of Health Care Policy Uncertainty on Households' Consumption and Portfolio Choice
Wiemann, Thomas T. - 2020
health care reform in the United States is a potentially important source of households' financial uncertainty. To quantify … the implications of this uncertainty for the real economy, this paper conducts an empirical analysis of the effect of … health care policy uncertainty (HCPU) on two channels of households' economic behavior: consumption and portfolio choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848640
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Risk Sharing with Private and Public Information
Stoltenberg, Christian A.; Denderski, Piotr - 2022
In this paper, we revisit the conventional view on efficient risk sharing that advance information on future shocks is detrimental to welfare. In our model, risk-averse agents receive private and public signals on future income realizations and engage in insurance contracts with limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296128
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Carnegie visits nobel: Do inheritances affect labor and capital income?
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011
The objective of this paper is to study when and how much labor supply and savings of heirs respond to inheritances. We estimate fixed effects models following direct heirs, inheriting in 2004, during the years 2000-2008 using Swedish panel data. Our first main result is that the more the heir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320267
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Carnegie visits Nobel: Do inheritances affect labor and capital income?
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011
The objective of this paper is to study when and how much labor supply and savings of heirs respond to inheritances. We estimate fixed effects models following direct heirs, inheriting in 2004, during the years 2000 - 2008 using Swedish panel data. Our first main result is that the more the heir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321389