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A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
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We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...
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This paper employs Swedish data on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume...
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This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...
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loss aversion or by violations of the Reduction Axiom. We validate the task and test its robustness in a large … gap that often characterizes choices under uncertainty by means of a higher loss rather than risk aversion …
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Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in … riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an … manufacturer). All subjects also participate in a simple lottery choice task which arguably measures loss aversion in risky choices …
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We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …
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This paper proposes an extension of the collective model for labor supply developed by Chiappori, Fortin and Lacroix (2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of wealth in a multi-period framework, with a focus on labor...
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welfare loss associated with postponement of preventive care is considerably lower than the welfare loss related to a decrease …
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Assuming that an individual's rank in the wealth distribution is the only factor determining the individual's wellbeing, we analyze the individual's risk preferences in relation to gaining or losing rank, rather than the individual's risk preferences towards gaining or losing absolute wealth. We...
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