consumption data. Allowing for the existence of measurement error in micro income, durables, finite lifetimes of consumers, and …In this paper I study a model of life-cycle consumption in which individuals react optimally to their own income … react too little to aggregate income variation. Aggregate consumption will be excessively smooth. Since aggregate …

This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment … not hold in general. Our results suggest that taxation has a significant and strong impact on consumption choice. Over the … life cycle, a tax relief increases consumption on average by about 22% of the tax rebate. A tax increase causes consumption …

such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers adapt to earlier consumption levels through a habit …

-)variance of power plant profits. If investors are risk-averse, these differ- ences lead to divergent investment portfolios …, breaking the equivalence of price- and quantity-based policy instruments under risk-neutrality. Using the European power sector … with increasing risk aversion. …

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left …-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household … show that in a standard incomplete-markets life-cycle model, first, higher-order risk has sizable welfare implications …

as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying causes and mechanisms, we propose a framework of how parental …

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared … to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate … educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky future income paths and therefore depends on risk and time preferences …