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pension: the Personal Pension with Risk sharing (PPR). By unbundling and valuing the investment, (dis)saving, insurance and … withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of systematic financial and longevity risks. Partly because of … risk-sharing functions of pensions, PPRs allow risk management and (dis)saving to be customized to the specific features of …
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Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of 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...
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We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval....
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When entering retirement most people face the decision whether they would like their defined contribution account balance paid as a lump sum or to annuitize the amount. The fact that people tend to choose the lump sum even if economic reasons suggest not to is called the annuity puzzle. In a...
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product leads to an increase in female decision-making power within the household. We find positive impacts, particularly for …-oriented durables goods purchased in the household. …
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This paper proposes a new approach for modeling investor fear after rare disasters. The key element is to take into account that investors' information about fundamentals driving rare downward jumps in the dividend process is not perfect. Bayesian learning implies that beliefs about the...
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an investor’s risk aversion and elasticity of intertemporal substitution that is made possible by recursive utility, in … contrast to expected utility, where the two are governed by the same parameter. In particular, we study exactly how risk … portfolio policies. We find that, in general, the consumption and portfolio decisions depend on both risk aversion and the …
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The paper reports the result of an experimental game on asset integration and risk taking. We find evidence that … winnings in earlier rounds affect risk taking in subsequent rounds, but no evidence that real life wealth outside the … experiment affects risk taking. We find some evidence of imitation of the risk taking behavior of others that is distinct from …
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substantial heterogeneity across subjects, decreasing absolute risk aversion and increasing relative risk aversion are the most … utility function. We then fit the experimental choices to this model to assess the risk attitude of our subjects. Despite the … prevalent risk types, and we can classify more than 50% of the subjects in this combined category. We also find evidence of …
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-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. In a dynamic portfolio choice framework, we show that as the year-end approaches … risky asset despite its positive risk premium. Under multiple sources of risk, with both systematic and idiosyncratic risks … present, we show that optimal managerial risk shifting may not necessarily involve taking on any idiosyncratic risk. Costs of …
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