Showing 1 - 10 of 8,040
The paper discusses a methodology for calculating the distribution of gains and losses from a policy change using data for a large sample of households. Estimates are based on the equivalent income function, which is money metric utility defined over observable variables. This enables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760068
A common problem in applied economics is to determine the impact on consumers of changes in prices and attributes of marketed products as a consequence of policy changes. Examples are prospective regulation of product safety and reliability, or retrospective compensation for harm from defective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953513
This paper studies the dynamic optimization problem of a household when portfolio adjustment is costly. The analysis is … stocks. We use this, and related observations, to estimate the parameters of household preferences and portfolio adjustment … and the consequent inactivity in portfolio adjustment imply that inferences drawn about household risk aversion and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151386
study of household finance is challenging because household behavior is difficult to measure accurately, and because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761660
in labor force participation has been accompanied by changes in allocation of time to various activities in the household … as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor force has been rising, the average amount of time input to household … tasks by all women has been declining over the last 50 years. It is valuable to analyze this in the household production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763227
Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052680
This paper shows that, except in certain limiting cases, competitive equilibrium with moral hazard is constrained inefficient. The first section compares the competitive equilibrium and the constrained social optimum in a fairly general model, and identifies types of market failure. Each of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156811
Nearly all life-cycle models adopt Yaari's (1965) assumption that individuals know the survival probabilities that they face. Given that an individual's exact survival probabilities are likely unknown, we explore the implications of relaxing this assumption. If there is no annuity market, then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950059
The market access and welfare effects of Free Trade Areas (FTAs) without Rules of Origin (ROOs) are studied. We consider both the final and intermediate goods markets and their interlinkage. The FTA weakly reduces all tariffs and prices within the FTA. This raises quantity demanded and reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222234
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222646