Despite the increasingly wide-spread nature of macroprudential regulations, relatively few studies have assessed the implications of such policies on key household finance decisions. In this paper, we investigate the impact on Irish household perceived savings constraints of macroprudential...

This paper examines the effects of income shock on savings decision of a household. In particular, it analyzes how an idiosyncratic income shock affects the asset portfolio held by a household. It shows that income volatility contributes to poverty of rural households by leading them to reduce...

This paper reexamines a recent contribution to the theory of wealth accumulation under income uncertainty by Ricardo Caballero in this Review. First we develop a more general model which generates a richer variety of results and this enables us to place the role of income uncertainty into a more...