The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets oneight markets in a computerized …

a tax experiment. Compliance varied significantlyover time: it decreased immediately after an audit and increased …

the different experimental risk elicitationmethods of certainty equivalents and binary lottery choices, and (iii) their … general phenomenon. Furthermore,our findings challenge the presumption of time-stable risk preferences and of … proceduralinvariance with respect to different experimental risk elicitation methods. …

undiversifiable labor income risk. Optimal portfolios are internationally diversified while positive correlation between domestic … with a small amount of buffer stock saving, while exchange rate risk makes foreign investments less appealing to risk …

labor income risk and stock-market participation costs. In contrast to the initial motivation, we find that the model is not …

simultaneously matching stock market participation and individual asset holdings. The high risk premium is driven by incomplete risk … negligible impact on the risk premium, contrary to the results of models where it is imposed exogenously. …

We show that a life-cycle model with realistically calibrated uninsurable labor income risk and moderate risk aversion … risk aversion. Households with low risk aversion smooth earnings shocks with a small buffer stock of assets and … consequently most of them (optimally) never invest in equities. Therefore, the marginal stockholders are (endogenously) more risk …