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accounts for the interaction between temperature, economic growth and risk. The model simultaneously matches the projected … temperature path, the observed consumption growth dynamics, discount rates provided by the risk-free rate and equity market … resolution of uncertainty and long-run impact of temperature on growth imply a significant SCC and motivate early actions to …
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This paper analyzes the implications of alterative risk assumptions for estimates of the distorting effects of the … risk assumptions. Results indicate that assessments of the relative importance of these distortions are sensitive to … alterative risk assumptions used in marginal tax rate calculations. The paper also explores the sensitivity of results to key …
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Auerbach-Jorgenson first year recovery plan is not equivalent to indexing as is often claimed, if uncertainty about inflation … implies uncertainty about the real after-tax discount rate …
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This paper provides a life-cycle framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefits against the incentive cost. Within this framework, we estimate the life-cycle risks that individuals face in the US, as well as the parameters governing the disability insurance program, using...
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We develop a macroeconomic model with physical and human capital, human capital risk, and limited contract enforcement …. We show analytically that young (high-return) households are the most exposed to human capital risk and are also the … least insured. We document this risk-insurance pattern in data on life-insurance drawn from the Survey of Consumer Finance …
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Insurance induces a well-known tradeoff between the welfare gains from risk protection and the welfare losses from … the tradeoff simultaneously, allowing for a relationship between moral hazard and risk protection. An important feature of …, and stoplosses that alter moral hazard as well as risk protection relative to no insurance. I illustrate the properties of …
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risk sharing. Higher uncertainty increases stock prices, risk premiums, volatility, wealth inequality and the dispersion of …I characterize a dynamic economy under general distributions of households' risk tolerance, endowments, and beliefs … consumption-share increases; (b) the wealth-share of high risk-tolerant households increases; (c) richer households' wealth …
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We analyze the pattern of growth of a nation which borrows abroad and which has the option of repudiating its foreign debt. We show that the equilibrium strategy of competitive lenders is to make the growth of the foreign debt contingent on the growth of the borrowing country. We give a...
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activities. This paper demonstrates that uncertainty may induce similar costs. This argument is illustrated in the context of … and intermediate products used in domestic production. The present paper shows that uncertainty acts as an implicit tax on …, uncertainty inhibits the formation of new activities. Unlike the tariff, however, uncertainty does not benefit the government with …
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a sticky-price alternative to Lucas's (1982) exchage rate risk premium model. We show that the level risk premium' in …
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