first-order approximated solution built by perturbation methods accounts for risk. We show that risk matters economically in … a real business cycle (RBC) model with habit formation and capital adjustment costs and that neglecting risk leads to …

This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk …. Results from the ESP model show that farmers who purchased WICI are less likely to be risk-averse compared with non …-purchaser farmers. Similarly, non-purchasers would have attained a significant reduction in their risk-aversion if they had taken up the …

, since retrading allows partial insurance of idiosyncratic risk in an incomplete markets setting. This lowers the issuers … idiosyncratic risk rises during recessions, so does the value of the service flows bestowing the safe asset with a negative ß. This …

of savings, precautionary savings, loss aversion, and risk. We provide the relevant theory, followed by empirical tests …

The equity premium puzzle holds that the coefficient of relative risk aversion estimated from the consumption based … gauge the uncertainty pertaining to the country risk aversion estimates by means of jackknife resampling and pooling. The … confidence band for the world risk aversion estimate from the pooled country data is much tighter and the pooled point estimate …

, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …

inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …