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We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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How to incorporate hard-to-measure assets into the wealth tax? We analyze the effect of an optimal wealth tax on risk …, actually larger than the risk-free market rate of return. The market equilibrium and a proportional tax on the market portfolio … will ensure an efficient risk allocation between private and public consumption and across projects. Failing to apply an …
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We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a … infections across time and space, we find that an increase in infections affecting background health risk translates into higher … financial risk-taking, and for the alleviating effect of self-insurance devices. …
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We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. We extract innovations from climate news … change hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk … approaches to managing climate risk. …
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We study a segmented-markets setting in which self-fulfilling volatility can arise. The only requirements are (i) asset price movements redistribute wealth across markets (e.g., equities rise as bonds fall) and (ii) some stabilizing force keeps valuation ratios stationary (e.g., cash flow growth...
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degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …
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worth, the evaporation of liquidity and rising risk premia are the key channels through which geopolitical uncertainty …
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Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price … stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is a much more effective approach to determine the optimal degree of … leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals …
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. The pandemic risk cannot be mutualized since it affects simultaneously a large number of businesses, and furthermore, it … risk coverage mechanisms based on a portfolio of financial securities, including long-short positions and options in stock … conclusions are derived from a theoretical model of corporate risk management, and they are illustrated by numerical simulations …
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