Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that … assets. Because households are subject to more background risk than previously considered, the estimated model implies a … substantially lower coefficient of risk aversion. We also find renewed support for rule-of-thumb investment strategies under the …

Evaluating risk measures, premiums, and capital allocation based on dependent multi-losses is a notoriously difficult … by a heavy-tailed background risk. A particular attention is given to the distortion and weighted risk measures and … allocations, as well as their special cases such as the conditional layer expectation, tail value at risk, and the truncated tail …