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We use survey data to study American households’ propensity to default when the value of their mortgage exceeds the value of their house even if they can afford to pay their mortgage (strategic default). We find that 26% of the existing defaults are strategic. We also find that no household...
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size of stock adjustment decisions, and find broad support for theoretical predictions in formal selection …
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Theory suggests that people facing higher uninsurable background risk buy more insurance against other risks that are … casualty insurance increases with earnings uncertainty. This finding is consistent with consumer preferences being …
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The full insurance hypothesis states that shocks to the firm's performance do not affect workers' compensation. In … principal-agent models with moral hazard, firms trade off insurance and incentives to induce workers to supply the optimal level … overall earnings variability, the remainder originating in idiosyncratic shocks. Finally, we show that the amount of insurance …
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