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By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....
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Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … reduces cooperation. In neither study, nor in either subject pool of our second study, do we find a significant effect of risk. …
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We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …
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We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility … risk aversion increases with income. Second, marginal utility is higher in the sick state conditional on income, due to an … observed fixed cost of sickness. Third, the domain-specificity of risk shifts the focus on the smoothing of utility, not …
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increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify changes in risk-independent performance and risk taking, our … increases in risk taking. These effects are concentrated among those closest to the margin of elimination and among lower …
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This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to … education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for males are larger than unadjusted returns. For females, risk …
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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. …
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