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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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differences in risk aversion play no significant role in competitive (tournament) vs. piece-rate job choices and consequent gender … wage gaps. Subjects in the treatment experiments are sorted into relatively more and relatively less risk averse groupings …. Relatively less risk averse subjects are assigned to a risky job track involving a known constant probability of unemployment in …
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In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry … exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …
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Minimum wages alter the allocation of firm-idiosyncratic risk across workers. To establish this result, we focus on …
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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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heterogeneous income risk, liquid and illiquid assets, price adjustment costs, and in which households differ by their occupation … occupation-specific infection risk and a ZLB policy and study the impact of occupational and aggregate labor supply shocks. We …
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We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply … a life-cycle model with search frictions, we show that the estimated changes in risk can account for 85 percent of the … increase in within group wage inequality. The welfare costs of rising risk are small …
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We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life …
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take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …
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