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Consumption and Labour Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper develops an analytical framework to study consumption and labour supply in a rich class of heterogeneous-agent economies with partial insurance. The environment allows for trade in non-contingent and state-contingent bonds, for permanent and transitory idiosyncratic productivity...

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Risk Aversion and Optimal Portfolio Policies in Partial and General Equilibrium Economies

Kogan, Leonid; Uppal, Raman - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In this article, we show how to analyse analytically the equilibrium policies and prices in an economy with a stochastic investment opportunity set and incomplete financial markets, when agents have power utility over both intermediate consumption and terminal wealth, and face portfolio...

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Optimal Financial Market Integration and Security Design

Acharya, Viral V; Bisin, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We study two-period pure-exchange Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) economies, for given degrees of incompleteness of financial markets and given degrees of restricted participation of agents in the markets. We characterize the optimal financial market structure of this economy, as well as...

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Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyses the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable … heterogeneous-agent economies. We emphasize a trade-off in the welfare calculation that arises when labour supply is endogenous. On … welfare loss roughly equivalent to a 2.5% decline in lifetime consumption. Assuming Cobb-Douglas preferences, this number is …

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The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross … markets can account for these trends in cross-sectional US data. We also investigate the welfare costs of the rise in wage in …

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Durable Goods, Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Insurance

Cerletti, Enzo; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper we study the transmission of income shocks into nondurable consumption in the presence of durable goods. We use a standard a life-cycle model with two goods to characterize the interaction of durability of goods, durability of shocks, and borrowing constraints as determinants of...

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Education and Borrowing Constraints: Tests Vs. Prices

Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper examines the properties of exams and markets as alternative allocation devices under borrowing constraints. Exams dominate markets in terms of matching efficiency. Whether aggregate consumption is greater under exams than under markets depends on the power of the exam technology; for...

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To Each According To...? Markets, Tournaments, and the Matching Problem with Borrowing Constraints

Fernández, Raquel; Galí, Jordi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We compare the performance of markets and tournaments as allocative mechanisms in an economy with borrowing constraints. The model consists of a continuum of individuals who differ in their initial wealth and ability level (e.g. students) and that are to be assigned to a continuum of investment...

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Equilibrium and Welfare in Markets with Financially Constrained Arbitrageurs

Gromb, Denis; Vayanos, Dimitri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

welfare properties. Allowing arbitrageurs to trade makes all investors better off. Arbitrageurs' positions may not be Pareto …

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Public versus Private Risk Sharing

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Can public insurance through redistributive income taxation improve the allocation of risk in an economy in which private risk sharing is limited? The answer depends crucially on the fundamental friction that limits private risk sharing in the first place. If risk sharing is incomplete because...

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