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Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …
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Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation
Bockerman, Petri - 2019
To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...
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Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior : Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence
Garbarino, Ellen - 2016
We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...
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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - 2021
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable (with error), we investigate the effect of risk aversion on the probability of entering higher...
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment : Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
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Trust and the Choice between Housing and Financial Assets : Evidence from Spanish Households
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2010
Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the dominant component of households' portfolios, real estate. In a simple model, we show how the...
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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
Brown, Sarah - 2011
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117198
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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