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The age structure of the French population has been experiencing dramatic changes over the past decades and is likely to do so in a near future. The increasing proportion of the elder people may modify the savings behaviour of households. The level of savings, as well as its composition, may be...
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Cet article se propose d’étudier l’influence de l’âge sur la composition des patrimoines, notamment sur la détention d’actifs risqués. En effet, une hypothèse souvent avancée est que, plus l’horizon de vie se raccourcit, plus la détention d’actifs risqués devrait se réduire....
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The diversifying power of inflation-linked (IL) bonds relative to traditional asset classes has changed significantly. In this paper, we study the dynamics of conditional volatilities and correlations for three asset classes, IL bonds, nominal bonds, and equities, in the USA and Europe. Using a...
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The authors examine the advantages of incorporating strategic exposure to equity volatility into the investment opportunity set of a long-term equity investor. They consider two standard volatility investments: implied volatility and volatility risk premium strategies. An analytical framework,...
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L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’efficacité des mécanismes d’incitation au remboursement utilisés dans le microcrédit individuel, et, en particulier, le mécanisme du garant. Peu de recherches académiques ont été consacrées à cet instrument alors même alors que son...
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L’objectif de ce papier est de proposer des instruments analytiques permettant de prendre en compte les différentiels relatifs aux variables démographiques, en particulier la mortalité, lorsqu’on effectue des comparaisons de pauvreté au cours du temps. L’idée de base consiste à «...
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Many empirical and behavioral studies underline the idea of a non-flat term structure of subjective interest rates with a decreasing slope. Using an empirical test, this paper aims at identifying in individual behaviors whether agents see their psychological value of time decreasing or not. We...
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Existing studies investigating the effect of mortality decline on retirement age usually specify the human mortality pattern in a parametric way and consider the derivative of optimal retirement age with respect to a change in the survival parameter. However, a survival parameter change affects...
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