/dissavings (40% and 47% in 2008-2010 and 2010-2012, respectively), and within‐household risk‐sharing (16% and 14%). Interestingly …This paper aims to fill the gaps in the analysis of risk‐sharing channels at the microlevel, both within and across … households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able …

--956) test if risk sharing across households is complete in the sense that household consumption moves one-for-one with aggregate … consumption. In their studies the source of income risk is idiosyncratic, and agents can share risk across the entire economy …. Using a sample of households from the Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID), we explore whether households share the risk …

theory suggests that with increasing labor income risk, the reluctance of households to hold stocks increases. We propose to … measure income risk as the observed variation of household income over a five year period. We find that indeed higher income … risk reduces the propensity to invest in stocks. However, when controlling for household heterogeneity as well as …

Blundell, Pistaferri, and Preston (American Economic Review, 2008, 98(5), 1887-1921) report an estimate of household … maximum likelihood estimation (QMLE), which produces a significantly higher estimate of consumption insurance at 55%. For sub …

incomplete markets model and find that advance information reduces households' income forecast errors by 15%. Our estimation …

Economic policy uncertainty is proven to have an important effect on household consumption. However, the literature on …, is limited. In this paper, we propose two channels through which economic policy uncertainty affects household … consumption, the precautionary saving channel and the investment-employment channel. Then, we use the household survey data (China …