Prior studies disagree regarding the effectiveness of financial literacy programs, especially those offered in the workplace. To explain such measurement differences in evaluation and outcomes, we employ a stochastic life cycle model with endogenous financial knowledge accumulation to...

The purpose of the study is to collect information that can be used to design a policy to induce the poor to invest in human capital. We use laboratory experimental methodology to measure the preferences and choices of the target population of a proposed government policy. We recruited 256...

This paper uses panel data and Euler equations to estimate preference specifications that are nonseparable in consumption and leisure. The econometric analysis uses panel data, and therefore it differs from existing econometric studies that use a representative agent framework. Moreover, the...

We consider a pure exchange representative agent economy with perishable and durable commodities in which the durable good provides status as well as services. We examine the effects of the durable's attributes on demands and equilibrium prices. When the attributes are perfect substitutes...

We examine intertemporal asset pricing when short sales are constrained in proportion to the value of an investor's portfolio. All assets' prices exceed every investor's marginal utility of consumption-based valuation of the associated dividends if every investor finds himself constrained in...

We show that, if relative wealth appears in the utility function, for example due to status seeking, then under certain conditions on the curvature of the utility function and the production function, the poor will eventually catch up with the rich. We give sufficient conditions for the final...

In an intertemporal consumption-saving model with uncertainty, liquidity constraints and habit formation, we have shown that habits can be a cushion against liquidity constraints by pushing even the impatient individual towards a choice of lower level of consumption. Dans un modèle...

In this paper we have examined the relationship between habit formation and Kimball's concept of prudence. Using first, Kimball's two-period model we have shown that habit formation leads to a larger prudence premium and greater precautionary saving, provided that the individual has decreasing...

In an intertemporal consumption-leisure choice model with wage uncertainty, and habit-forming consumption, we have shown that, consumption and leisure do move in opposite directions, consistent with the observed pro-cyclicy of aggregate hours worked. Dans un modèle intertemporel de consommation...

The World Trade Center attack has shed light on the urgent need to implement preventing measures against terrorism and to enhance cooperation in the global security system for all countries. However, international coordination cannot be taken for granted. It is often ineffective and likely to...