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We use the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to revisit what is termed the credit card debt puzzle: why consumers simultaneously co-hold high-interest credit card debt and lowinterest assets that could be used to pay down this debt. This dataset contains unique information on...
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Exponential-growth bias (EGB) is the tendency for individuals to partially neglect compounding of exponential growth. We develop a model wherein biased agents misperceive the intertemporal budget constraint, and derive conditions for overconsumption and dynamic inconsistency. We construct an...
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, when reasonably calibrated. Ample empirical evidence, however, shows that the transition path of a country's saving rate …, implies transitional dynamics of the saving rate that accords well with empirical evidence. This holds true even in a growth …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, when reasonably calibrated. Ample empirical evidence, however, shows that the transition paths of most countries saving …-shaped pattern of the saving rate (Gomz, 2008). However, the implied magnitude of the hump falls short of what is seen in empirical …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, when reasonably calibrated. Ample empirical evidence, however, shows that the transition paths of most countries' saving …-shaped pattern of the saving rate (Goméz, 2008). However, the implied magnitude of the hump falls short of what is seen in empirical …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, when reasonably calibrated. Ample empirical evidence, however, shows that the transition path of a country's saving rate …, implies transitional dynamics of the saving rate that accords well with empirical evidence. This holds true even in a growth …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, when reasonably calibrated. Ample empirical evidence, however, shows that the transition path of a country’s saving rate …, implies transitional dynamics of the saving rate that accords well with empirical evidence. This holds true even in a growth …
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optimized”, even if they do not engage in any formal planning. We test this empirically in the domain of retirement saving using …
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Large variations in retirement wealth are common, with some households accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars and others accumulating next to nothing. We examine to what extent formal planning or simple rules of thumb contribute to these differences in wealth accumulation. In particular,...
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