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model of time-varying labor income risk and study the implications of stochastic covariance between labor income and … dividends for the dynamics of the risk premiums on financial wealth and human capital …
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Are fluctuations in firms' profitability risk a major cause of regular business cycles? We study this question within … such a model, surprise increases of risk lead to a wait-and-see policy for investment at the firm level and a decrease in … the size of firm-level risk fluctuations. We find that time-varying firm-level risk on its own is unlikely to be a major …
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-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …
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International risk-sharing has far-reaching implications both for economic policy and for basic research in economics …. When countries do not share risk, individuals in those countries experience fluctuations in their consumption levels that … are undesirable and possibly unnecessary. This paper extends and refines the study of international risk-sharing in two …
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The paper tests three hypotheses concerning foreign equity investment in the presence of liquidity risk. First, the FDI …-to-FPI price differential is negatively related to liquidity risk (the "Price Discount Hypothesis"). The idea is that market …-Composition Hypothesis"). The idea is that because direct investments are more costly to liquidate, due to the price discount, the more …
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models in which the exogenous state variables follow conditionally-linear stochastic processes displaying time-varying risk …. The first-order approximation is consistent with a conditionally-linear model in which risk is still time-varying but has … second-order approximation of the solution, instead, is sufficient to get this role. Moreover, risk premia, evaluated using …
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In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain the choices individuals make when faced with risky prospects. To make this assessment, we use experimental evidence for two random samples of young adults. Using a robust,...
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We calculate the present value of state pension liabilities under existing policies, and separately under policy changes that would affect pension payouts including cost of living adjustments (COLAs), retirement ages, and buyout schedules for early retirement. Liabilities if plans were frozen as...
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stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …
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and conditional heteroskedasticity of exchange rates and on the behavior of foreign exchange risk premiums. The model …
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