We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess …

consumption. It is also a component of the interest elasticity of consumption and the risk aversion of the value function which … function, income risk is found to raise the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth in a multiperiod model with many risky …

lifespan risk, can explain a significant portion U.S. savings during retirement. However, more work is needed to disentangle … question is why households do not buy more insurance against these risks. Going beyond total savings and looking at its …

explaining saving rate differences than differences in income risk. We estimate the preference parameters and find that Chinese … and US households are more similar in their attitude toward risk than in their intertemporal substitutability of …

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …. We construct a panel dataset of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … number of tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top …

retirement. We test this prediction in a group of people--players in the National Football League (NFL)--whose income profile … consumption of NFL players, we test whether they have adequate savings by counting how many retired NFL players file for … provide much protection against the risk of going bankrupt …