We explore the link between portfolio home bias and consumption risk sharing among Italian regions using aggregated … household level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. We propose to use data on equity fund ownership to … therefore provide interregional diversification. In assessing the impact of equity fund ownership on interregional risk sharing …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …

model that is calibrated with regard to the characteristics of the US economy. Poor agents accumulate savings predominantly …

policy consists in full deferral of income taxes on savings and a full taxation of interest. Mobility of the old calls for … savings in combination with full tax exemption on capital income. …

Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is …

crisis. The paper recommends obligatory priv ate savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …

We find that inflation did not unanimously decrease savings in the US during the postwar period. This result is …

empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with … indicate that in the South consumption should fall more than in the North when the male household head becomes unemployed. This …