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Stock market optimism and participation cost: a mean-variance estimation

Tiseno, Andrea; Paiella, Monica - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Using Italian household data we jointly estimate the yearly cost of participating to the stock market and the cross …

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Accounting for the Heterogeneity in Retirement Wealth

Yang, Fang - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

very well the empirical observation that households with similar lifetime incomes hold very different amounts of wealth at … retirement. Income heterogeneity and borrowing constraints are essential in generating the variation in retirement wealth among … in retirement wealth among high lifetime income households …

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Health Insurance and Tax Policy

Jeske, Karsten; Kitao, Sagiri - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

The U.S. tax policy on health insurance favors only those offered group insurance through their employers, and is highly regressive since the subsidy takes the form of deductions from the progressive income tax system. The paper investigates alternatives to the current policy. We find that a...

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The Effects of Longevity and Distortions on Education and Retirement.

Pessoa, Samuel de Abreu; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Unemployment Insurance under Moral Hazard and Limited Commitment:Public versus Private Provision

Worall, Tim; Thomas, Jonathan P - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Consumption Along the Life Cycle: How Different is Housing?

Yang, Fang - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Income Redistribution and Disability Insurance

Hatchondo, Juan Carlos; Hopenhayn, Hugo - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Evidence on the Effect of US Consumer Bankruptcy Exemptions

Grant, Charles - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

Bankruptcy (defaulting on one's debts) acts as insurance if it allows default in cases of negative income shocks. However, if debts are not fully recoverable, lenders may instead react by limiting the amount that they allow households to borrow. This upper borrowing limit will increase as the...

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The Dynamics of Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

Eraslan, Hulya; Li, Wenli; Sarte, Pierre-Daniel - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

creditors; and 4. the length of repayment plans and overall time spent in Chapter 13. We then use the estimated structural model …

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Strategic Asset Allocation, Asset Price Dynamics, and the Business Cycle

Jaccard, Ivan - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

puzzle, (ii) the observed time-variation in aggregate portfolio holdings, and (iii) the occurrence of twin peaks in equity …

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