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Abstract I analyze optimal natural resource use in an intergenerational model with the risk of a catastrophe. Each generation maximizes a weighted sum of discounted utility (positive) and the probability that a catastrophe will occur at any point in the future (negative). The model generates...
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Payments of life insurance products depend on the uncertain future evolution of survival probabilities. This uncertainty is referred to as longevity risk. Existing literature shows that the effect of longevity risk on single life annuities can be substantial, and that there exists a (natural)...
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We empirically study how the underlying riskiness of the pool of home equity line of credit originations is affected over the credit cycle. Drawing from the largest existing database of U.S. home equity lines of credit, we use county-level aggregates of these loans to estimate panel regressions...
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We investigate the effects of demographics, household expenditure and female employment on the allocation of household expenditure to consumer goods. For this purpose we estimate an Almost Ideal Demand System based on Dutch micro data. We find that interactions between household expenditure and...
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collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) individual preferences. We establish a … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The … same non-testability conclusion holds for privateness (with or without externalities) or publicness of consumption. By …
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Risk premia in the consumption capital asset pricing model depend on preferences and dividend. We develop a … of a preference-based stochastic discount factor for pricing assets with respect to the consumption innovation. Depending … individual consumption. …
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which production and consumption bundles are treated separately. Each of the two types of bundles is assumed to establish a …
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