choices over the life cycle. We start by analyzing the theoretical impact of income changes on consumption - highlighting the … contributions, distinguishing between papers that use only income data and those that use both income and consumption data. The … and identify the income process or the information set of the individuals. Second, one can assume that the income process …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of … optimal aggregate saving rate is independent of income risk. The optimal time-invariant tax on capital is increasing in income … that the optimal steady state saving rate is increasing in income risk if and only if the intertemporal elasticity of …

In this paper we argue that very high marginal labor income tax rates are an effective tool for social insurance even … labor productivity risk, show that it has a wealth distribution that matches the data well, and then use it to characterize …

unconditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth and the moments of the risk-free rate, equity premium, price …-dividend ratio, and aggregate dividend and consumption growth. The model-implied risk-free rate and price-dividend ratio are … procyclical while the market return has countercyclical mean and variance. Finally, household consumption risk explains the cross …

This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social … average earnings (which is not the case during expansions). Finally, we find that the cyclical nature of income risk is … individual income growth during recessions into "between-group" and "within-group" components. We begin with the behavior of …

I introduce money into an incomplete markets model with heterogeneous agents and uninsurable income risk. I show that … the model exhibits both non-monetary and monetary equilibria, with the latter existing when income risk is sufficiently …

accumulation in which households face idiosyncratic income risk and cannot commit to repay their debt. Therefore, even though a …

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …