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Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement
Fehr, Hans - 2019
We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract
Efing, Matthias - 2019
We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk sharing whereby bonus pay partially absorbs earnings shocks....
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Voluntary Equity, Project Risk, and Capital Requirements
Haufler, Andreas; Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2022
We introduce a model of the banking sector that formally incorporate a buffer function of capital. Heterogeneous banks choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against the risk of default outweighs the cost advantages of...
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Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the Stochastic Discount Factor and Estimation of Risk Premia from Portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2021
The arbitrage pricing theory (APT) attributes differences in expected returns to exposure to systematic risk factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233142
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Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset
Bauer, Adam Michael; Proistosescu, Christian; Wagner, Gernot - 2023
We develop a financial-economic model for carbon pricing with an explicit representation of decision making under risk and uncertainty that is consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. We find that this approach provides economic support for the...
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Firm heterogeneity and credit risk diversification
Hanson, Samuel; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Schuermann, Til - 2005
This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...
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The Trading Response of Individual Investors to Local Bankruptcies
Laudenbach, Christine - 2020
We use data from a German online brokerage and a survey to show that retail investors sharply reduce risk-taking in response to nearby firm bankruptcies, which are not predictive of returns. The effects on trading are spatially highly concentrated, immediate and not persistent. They seem to...
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Consumer Debt and Default : A Macro Perspective
Exler, Florian - 2020
In this survey, we review the quantitative macroeconomic literature analyzing consumer debt and default. We start by providing an overview of consumer bankruptcy law in the US and document the relevant institutional changes over time. We proceed with a comprehensive empirical section, describing...
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Have Capital Market Anomalies Worldwide Attenuated in the Recent Era of High Liquidity and Trading Activity?
Auer, Benjamin R. - 2018
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has … characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link … between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor …
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Furlough and Household Financial Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Görtz, Christoph; McGowan, Danny; Yeromonahos, Mallory - 2021
We study how furlough affects household financial distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furlough increases the probability of late housing and bill payments by 30% and 9%, respectively. The effects exist for individuals who rent their home, but not mortgagees who can mitigate financial distress...
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