This Paper examines how aversion to risk and aversion to intertemporal substitution determines the strength of the … large risks, we show that decreasing absolute risk aversion guarantees that the precautionary saving motive is stronger than … risk aversion, regardless of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution. Holding risk preferences fixed, the extent to …

Risk premia in the consumption capital asset pricing model depend on preferences and dividends. We develop a … decomposition which allows for the separate treatment of both components. We show that preferences alone determine the risk …-return trade-off measured by the Sharpe-ratio. In general, the risk-return trade-off implied by preferences depends on the …

This paper employs the recursive utility approach, based on quadratic felicity functions and constant absolute risk … aversion, to distinguish between risk aversion and intertemporal substitution. Stochastic dynamic programming yields closed … min-max strategy against nature. When applied to a life cycle consumption problem, one finds a rationale for precautionary …

-rich households consume a larger share of their current income when exposed to a higher top income and consumption levels. We argue …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … smaller consumption losses in Spanish and Italian households. We discuss this finding in the light of different market and … that credit and insurance markets are also more developed in the North than in the South, existing theories of consumption …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

. We decompose the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility ("uncertainty … monetary policy decreases risk aversion after about five months. Monetary authorities react to periods of high uncertainty by … through which monetary policy may affect risk aversion, e.g., through its effects on broad liquidity measures and credit. …

The preferred risk habitat hypothesis, introduced here, is that individual investors select stocks with volatilities … commensurate with their risk aversion; more risk-averse individuals pick lower-volatility stocks. The investors' portfolio … stocks are sold they are replaced by stocks of similar volatilities, and the more risk averse customers indeed hold less …

In this paper, we study the determinants of the value of informal risk sharing groups. In particular, we look at the … if individuals can deviate form risk sharing agreements in coalitions or not. We test empirically several predictable … size of risk sharing groups can be rejected or that only imperfect risk sharing is obtained within the village because of …

between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …, ultimate lenders and financial intermediaries. The model is used to investigate the impact of uncertainty about the likelihood … include: (i) An unanticipated increase in bailout uncertainty raises interest rates, the volume of defaults in both the real …