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and the pure time discount rate, there is distributional neutrality between the two periods. Otherwise, changes of risk …
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We show how optimal saving in a two-period model is affected when prudence and risk aversion of the underlying utility … and the pure time discount rate, there is distributional neutrality between the two periods. Otherwise, changes of risk …
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We study markets for perishable goods with search frictions. Sellers have a single unit of a good and post prices in every period. Buyers engage in costly search to observe prices and match values. In equilibrium trade starts endogenously and the volume of trade increases over time. Under mild...
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We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates 'standard …' risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions … important role in explaining the aversion to risk manifested in deductible choices. This finding is robust to allowing for …
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consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences … not exposed to risk while beneficiaries' final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation itself, depending on … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
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risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty – the ambiguity triangle – and show that …
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The paper reexamines the welfare economics of intergenerational risk. Risk and its resolution over time are modeled as … preferences to (i) disentangle aversion to intergenerational inequality from aversion to risk, (ii) exhibit a preference for early … resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
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-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time real options model with “tail risk”. In a nutshell, our results … indicate the importance of tail risk and call for foresighted pre-emptive climate policies …
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Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …
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We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …
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