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This paper studies the effect of combining different insurance schemes on the efficiency of consumption smoothing in an environment without commitment. A savings account is introduced into the self-enforcing risk-sharing model of Thomas and Worrall (1988). The risk averse agent's savings play...
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We propose an overlapping generations economy where households care about relative consumption, the difference between their consumption and the consumption of their reference group. An individual's consumption is driven by the comparison of his lifetime income and the lifetime income of his...
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-driven volatility estimators using high-frequency data and suggest multivariate applications. In addition to testing for the presence of … associated with the Asian and Russian financial crises. We find changes in the dynamics and long memory of volatility in the …
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In this paper, we introduce a new approach for volatility modeling in discrete and continuous time. We follow the … stochastic volatility literature by assuming that the variance is a function of a state variable. However, instead of assuming …
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, taking the form of postponed capacity investment, may occur in Markov Perfect Equilibrium. Volatility and the expected speed …
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The risk-return trade-off being the very substance of finance, volatility has always been an essential parameter for … volatility risk: i.e. the model risk generated by treating the volatility as a constant parameter, when it is in fact volatile …. Hence the econometrician is asked for accurate measures and reliable forecasts of volatility, not only for pricing and …
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