We study the optimal taxation of risk-free and excess capital income with heterogeneous rates of return, alongside an … optimal nonlinear earnings tax. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a … private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose expected return differs among households. Contrary to expectations, the …

This experimental paper investigates the impact of emotions on risk and return estimates of stocks. Participants rate … well-known blue-chip firms on an emotional scale and forecast risk and return of the firms' stock. We find that positive … emotions lead to a prediction of high return and low risk, while negative emotions lead to a prediction of low return and high …

Stocks with high uncertainty about risk, as measured by the volatility of volatility (vol-of-vol), robustly … underperform stocks with low uncertainty about risk by 10 percent per year. This vol-of-vol effect is distinct from (combinations … that uncertainty about risk is highly relevant for stock prices …

liquidity, volatility characteristics, and jump risks, and are not explained by common risk factors. Our findings suggest that …

on the state of the economy. I show that a conditional model with investors' beliefs and an uncertainty risk factor is … risk factor retains its incremental explanatory power when compared to other conditional models such as the conditional …

turns out to decrease ex-ante individual welfare, unless restrictions are assumed on retirement behavior. Overall, risk … shown to yield a slight ex-ante welfare improvement from a purely risk-insurance perspective. This relative gain stems from … risk diversification across working-life wages in computing benefits. -- social security reforms ; uncertainty ; risk …

We study the optimal taxation of risk-free and excess capital income with heterogeneous rates of return, alongside an … optimal nonlinear earnings tax. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a … private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose expected return differs among households. Contrary to expectations, the …

This experimental study investigates the impact of affective attitudes on risk and return estimates of stocks …. Participants rate well-known blue-chip firms on an affective scale and forecast risk and return of the firms' stock. We find that … positive affective attitudes lead to a prediction of high return and low risk, while negative attitudes lead to a prediction of …