Incomplete markets models imply heterogeneous household savings behaviour which in turn generates pecuniary … in the population, these savings externalities may contribute to inequality. Working with an open economy heterogenous … earnings processes of British households with university and non-university educated heads entail savings externalities that …

risk of workers, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive. Using a quantitative model analysis, we show that this …

We study optimal savings in continuous time with exogenous transitions between employment and unemployment as the only …

of savings, precautionary savings, loss aversion, and risk. We provide the relevant theory, followed by empirical tests …We consider a simple, two period, consumption-savings model with future income uncertainty that examines the interplay … present bias. We predict, and show empirically, that loss aversion reduces savings, and that those who are more loss averse …

function change. Increasing prudence alone will induce higher savings only if, for certain combinations of the interest rate …