In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is diversified ex post among the skilled by graduate taxation and skill …-specific tuition fees. Educational risk of failure and inequality between skilled and unskilled workers are mitigated ex ante by …

In a model with ex-ante homogenous households, earnings risk and a general earnings function, we derive the optimal … (overinvestment) in education due to risk. Education policy unambiguously allows for more social insurance if education is a risky … activity. However, if education hedges against labor market risk, optimal tax rates could be lower than without education …

The argument that policy risk, i.e., uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic … recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining … business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New Keynesian model featuring policy risk as well as uncertainty about …

lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical and firms … risky tail of the distribution of firm-level unemployment risk. Meanwhile, unemployment becomes persistent for low-wage and …

Common integrated assessment models produce the counterintuitive result that higher risk aversion does not lead to …. The simulations show that aversion to this tipping point risk has little effect. For climate sensitivity of realistic …