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an increase in ambiguity is associated with increased investor activity. It also leads to a reduction in risk …
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We examine whether the robustifying nature of Taylor rule cross-checking under model uncertainty carries over to the case of parameter uncertainty. Adjusting monetary policy based on this kind of cross-checking can improve the outcome for the monetary authority. This, however, crucially depends...
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stochastic mortality risk and health shock risk numerically. These shocks are interpreted as critical illness and can negatively …
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stochastic mortality risk driven by jumps, unspanned labor income as well as short-sale and liquidity constraints and a simple … insurance. I compare models with deterministic and stochastic hazard rate of death to a model without mortality risk. Mortality … risk has only minor effects on the optimal controls early in the life cycle but it becomes crucial in later years. A …
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This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk …
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of the causes of systematic risk and shows that (i) network exposures act as an inflating factor for systematic exposure …
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We study consumption-portfolio and asset pricing frameworks with recursive preferences and unspanned risk. We show that … with recursive preferences and unspanned risk. Our setting is not restricted to affine asset price dynamics. Numerical …
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manager's taxable wealth is publicly available. Consistent with the model, portfolio company risk decreases and leverage …
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evidence indicates that stocks with higher idiosyncratic volatility have the lower exposition on the indegree risk factor. …
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This paper studies a household's optimal demand for a reverse mortgage. These contracts allow homeowners to tap their home equity to finance consumption needs. In stylized frameworks, we show that the decision to enter a reverse mortgage is mainly driven by the dierential between the aggregate...
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