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Financial literacy and suboptimal financial decisions at older ages
Fong, Joelle H.; Koh, Benedict SK.; Mitchell, Olivia S.; … - 2019
Over the life-cycle, wealth holdings tend to be highest in the early part of retirement. The quality of financial decisions among older adults is therefore an important determinant of their financial security during the asset drawdown phase. This paper assesses how financial literacy shapes...
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Putting the pension back in 401(k) retirement plans: Optimal versus default longevity income annuities
Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2018
A recent US Treasury regulation allowed deferred longevity income annuities to be included in pension plan menus as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936359
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The role of labor-income risk in household risk-taking?
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - 2020
In fifteen European countries, China, and the US, stocks and business equity as a share of total household assets are represented by an increasing and convex function of income/wealth. A parsimonious model fitted to the data shows why background labor-income risk can explain much of this...
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Fixed and variable longevity annuities in defined contribution plans: Optimal retirement portfolios taking social security into account
Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2023
This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their … annuities in DC accounts is welfare enhancing for all sex/education groups examined. We also show that providing access to well …-designed variable deferred annuities with some equity exposure further enhances retiree wellbeing, compared to having access only to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013557346
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Fitting parsimonious household- portfolio models to data
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - 2014
US data and new stockholding data from fifteen European countries and China exhibit a common pattern: stockholding shares increase in household income and wealth. Yet, there is a multitude of numbers to match through models. Using a single utility function across households (parsimony), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426998
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The impact of health insurance on stockholding: A regression discontinuity approach
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - 2014
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of...
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Simplifying choices in defined contribution retirement plan design: A case study
Mitchell, Olivia S.; Keim, Donald B. - 2017
The growth and popularity of defined contribution pensions, along with the government's increasing attention to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729741
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Economic policy uncertainty and stock market participation
Gábor-Tóth, Enikő; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2018
Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in reading newspapers and the frequency of such news in the...
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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142941
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Fitting parsimonious household- portfolio models to data
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - Center for Financial Studies - 2014
US data and new stockholding data from fifteen European countries and China exhibit a common pattern: stockholding shares increase in household income and wealth. Yet, there is a multitude of numbers to match through models. Using a single utility function across households (parsimony), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986432