Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using … a novel mult-country questgionnaire experiment we examine the basis for this claim in terms of respondents …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard …

investigate a model that incorporates three sources of risk: asset risk and salary (or labour-income) risk in the accumulation … phase; and interest-rate risk at the point of retirement. We propose a new form of terminal utility function, incorporating … presence of non-hedgeable salary risk. We compare the performance of stochastic lifestlying with some popular strategies used …