This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …, rather than its overall sustainability, that leads households to reduce their consumption. We perform as well a threshold …

We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation … evidence that this is likely driven by the fact that Dutch households seem to become more pessimistic about their real income …

We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information … dispersed than households', consistent with higher information frictions among households. Second, the degree of dispersion and … the distance from expert forecasts varies more across groups of households than across groups of firms. Third, firms …

considers relative earnings disparities within households. We provide empirical evidence supporting our model's predictions …

virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …

households and lower investment by firms, and hence leads to lower aggregate investment and growth. This paper argues that … although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …