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infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields …
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Risk exposure can be efficiently optimized in practical situations, using a new apporach to identification of investor …'s risk aversion. …
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A man is a key subject of economics and economic theory. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais … paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper … solution of these problems and the development of the economic theory. A radically new approach has been proposed. It considers …
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linearized incomplete markets model, enriched to incorporate risk- sharing while maintaining tractability. Our estimates suggest … that taking risk sharing into account is important for the model fit; that the increase in inequality in the 1980s was … mainly permanent; and that inequality is driven almost entirely by idiosyncratic income risk. In addition we find no evidence …
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weekly expenditure data from the FES we estimate the coefficient of relative risk aversion (point estimates are between 2 and …
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Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to construct an intertemporal budget constraint for selected single headed households. A new functional form of the dual consumer profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply...
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A central prediction of the quasi-hyperbolic model of time preference is that consumers will be impatient over short-run tradeoffs. I present the first nonlaboratory test of this implication using data on the nutritional intake of food stamp recipients. Caloric intake declines by 10 to 15...
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A quadratic discrete time probabilistic model, for optimal portfolio selection in (re-)insurance is studied. For …
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Prescott (1985) economy by allowing investors’ coefficient of relative risk aversion to depend partly on their current feelings … potential loss. In an attempt to maintain their good mood, investors become less willing to bear any portfolio risk, i.e. they … become more risk averse. Extremely mild procyclical changes (a standard deviation of about one percentage point) in investors …
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The real options approach is used to explain discounted utility anomalies as artifacts of the optimizing behavior of an individual with standard preferences, who perceives the utility from consumption in the future as uncertain. For this ndividual, waiting is valuable because uncertainty is...
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