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US and European Household Debt and Credit Constraints
Crook, Jonathan; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2007
consumption models, including a numerically solved precautionary savings model. We find that inter-country differences are …
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Savings Adequacy Uncertainty: Driver or Obstacle to Increased Pension Contributions?
van Schie, Ron J.G.; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - 2012
data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on … retirement savings contributions and information search processes. We combine ideas from the literature in psychology and … economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326496
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Saving and Habit Formation: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
Alessie, Rob; Teppa, Federica - 2002
This paper focuses on the role of habit formation in individual preferencesover consumption and saving. We closely relate to Alessie and Lusardi's(1997) model as we estimate a model which is based on their closed-formsolution, where saving is expressed as a function of lagged saving and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324978
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Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age: a Random Effects Model
Bloemen, Hans - 2008
Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325943
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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House Prices, Second Mortgages and Household Savings; An Empirical Investigation for the Netherlands, 1987-1994
Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002
paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325002
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Scale, Scope and Cognition: Context Analysis of Multiple Stated Choice Experiments on the Values of Life and Limb
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012
In this paper we use data from an SP study on flood safety in the Netherlands, and elicit individual preferences for reduction of risk to life and limb. We perform context analysis to test the robustness of fatality risk valuation throughout choice experiments. The main interest of this paper is...
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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding: Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012
This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326300
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976846
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Explaining the Wealth Holdings of Different Cohorts: Productivity Growth and Social Security
Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999
It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation paths. While previous studies have usedcohort dummies to proxy for this fact, research in this area suffers from aserious identification problem, i.e., how to disentangle age, time,...
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