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We investigate the trade-off between the risk-sharing gains enjoyed by more interconnected firms and the costs … resulting from an increased risk exposure. We find that when the shock distribution displays “fat” tails, extreme segmentation …
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financial transactions tax is entirely neutral. Second, in a model with correlated investment risk and short-term financing of …
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financial transactions tax is entirely neutral. Second, in a model with correlated investment risk and short-term financing of …
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investor to hold out. This model shows that the investment decision is based on the portfolio structure, risk aversion and …
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This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contribution pension contracts. We … consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate …
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In higher education, pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment due to insufficient risk pooling, while pure …
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Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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facilitate intergenerational risk-sharing. In addition to the primary benefit of improved time diversification, this form of risk … results of the paper is that better intergenerational risk-sharing does not reduce the risk born by each generation. Rather …
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A common practice of banks has been to pool assets of different qualities and then sell a fraction of the newly created portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level...
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access to financial markets quite quickly result in increasing market participation. However, the degree and sort of risk …
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