-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper … explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … default risk of firms which operate in these environments. The predictions are in accord with readily available data …

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The … approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross … decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth …

consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and …) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare …