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) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The mean and the variance of …
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This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production …
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of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The … costs of foreign investment are large. Second, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for … divert a sizable fraction of the production of EU multinationals from the US to Canada …
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Uncertainty is a ubiquitous concern emphasized by policymakers. We study how uncertainty affects decision-making by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We distinguish between the notion of Fed-managed uncertainty vis-a-vis uncertainty that emanates from within the economy and which the Fed...
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In this paper we study the neoclassical growth model with idiosyncratic income risk and aggregate risk in which risk … pay off depending on both idiosyncratic and aggregate risk, but limited commitment rules out that households sell these … conditions under which it has lower/higher risk premia than the corresponding representative agent version of the model …
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heterogeneous attitudes towards crash risk. The less crash-averse insure the more crash-averse through the options markets that … literature: the tendency of stock index options to overpredict volatility and jump risk, the Jackwerth (2000) implicit pricing …
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in other financial assets. This paper investigates how this aspect of Social Security risk varies across groups of … across groups in this component of Social Security risk, as captured by the sensitivity of individual-level income growth to … changes in the SSWI. This element of risk is most important for women, especially women who are young-to-middle aged and with …
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This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk in an overlapping-generations economy. It compares the allocation of … risk the economy reaches naturally to the allocation that would be reached if generations behind a Rawlsian 'veil of … ignorance' could share risk with one another through complete Arrow-Debreu contingent-claims markets. The paper then examines …
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This paper examines the risk aspects of an investment-based defined contribution Social Security plan. We focus on the … risk after the plan is fully phased in. Individuals deposit a fraction of wages to a Personal Retirement Account (PRA … cushion' that protects the individual from the risk of an unacceptably low level of benefits. For example, PRA deposits of 6 …
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