boom yields consistently positive excess returns. This excess return compensates for the risk of high negative returns in … countries on risk aversion, and low (high) risk aversion currencies depreciate (appreciate) in times of global turmoil …

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear … provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is …

We analyse optimal saving of risk-averse households when labour income stochastically jumps between two states. The … generalized Keynes-Ramsey rule includes a precautionary savings term. A phase diagram analysis illustrates consumption and wealth …

data. How these differences affect saving in theoretical models depends on the metric one uses for risk. For labor-income …How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the … risk, second-degree increases in risk require prudence to induce increased saving demand. However, prudence is not …

the risk-free rate. This allows us to discuss several policy measures. Capital requirements and a correctly implemented …

spread while the return-forecasting (risk premium) factor is extracted by imposing a single factor structure on the one …-sectional fit of the yield curve. Second, we find that financial shocks, either in the form of liquidity or risk premium shocks …

Using detailed tax data from the Swiss canton of Bern, I examine how changes in wealth are related to income risk. I … find that only among elderly individuals high kurtosis of income risk may be positively correlated with wealth accumulation … wealth investors experience sharp increases in wealth and income in subsequent periods. Finally, wealth risk is more …