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regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
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Macroeconomic uncertainty affects the subjective distribution of individual expectations. Using four panel datasets, we document the effects of macro uncertainty on the mean expectation (first moment) and subjective uncertainty (second moment) of income forecasts. We find that macro uncertainty...
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What are the effects of beliefs, sentiment, and uncertainty, over the business cycle? To answer this question, we develop a behavioral New Keynesian macroeconomic model, in which we relax the assumption of rational expectations. Agents are, instead, boundedly rational: they have a...
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Financial Crisis was associated with an increase in both risk aversion and ambiguity aversion, while the Dot-com Crisis only … affected risk aversion. …
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this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …
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typically shares in the latter gains via the collection of tax revenues. Hence to the extent the risk discount rate should … reflect the co-variability between the return from public investment and that of the market, we are led to measuring the risk …, 1950-2000, and show that the social risk premium is relatively small vis-à-vis the market. Consequently, the use of the …
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We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost identically in the US economy. In order to derive the cyclical behavior of the equity returns in these two sectors, we consider a standard two-sector real-business cycle model with...
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Even though external debt can play a buffer role against adverse shocks to assist consumption smoothing, it may also exert a volatility amplifying effect, depending on the currency of denomination and the cyclicality of the borrower’s exchange rate. We empirically investigate the nexus between...
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