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We adapt the design of five experimental studies on retirement decision-making and conduct reproductions with a larger … subjects collect retirement benefits as lump-sum instead of annuities, they choose to retire later. The duration of retirement … with tax rebates. When faced with stochastic survival risk, subjects make partial adjustments to spending paths. We also …
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We analyze the impact of risk and ambiguity aversion using a lifecycle recursive utility model. Both risk and ambiguity … in which we can vary both risk and ambiguity aversion, while preserving preference monotonicity …
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We report the effects of framing and default settings in annuity demand after conducting a survey-based experiment with over 3,000 members of a Dutch occupational pension plan. The participants were asked to allocate their real projected pension accrual between a life annuity and a partial lump...
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In typical robust portfolio selection problems, one mainly finds portfolios with the worst-case return under a given uncertainty set, in which asset returns can be realized. A too large uncertainty set will lead to a too conservative robust portfolio. However, if the given uncertainty set is not...
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We consider a real options model for the optimal irreversible investment problem of a profit maximizing company. The company has the opportunity to invest into a production plant capable of producing two products, of which the prices follow two independent geometric Brownian motions. After...
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We study the consumption and portfolio selection problem of an agent who faces consumption irreversibility: there is disutility from changing consumption levels. The derived preference exhibits intertemporal loss aversion toward consumption changes with the previous consumption level being the...
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