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Approximating equilibria with ex-post heterogeneity and aggregate risk
Pröhl, Elisabeth - 2017
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with ex-post heterogeneity due to idiosyncratic risk have to be solved numerically. This is a nontrivial task as the cross-sectional distribution of endogenous variables becomes an element of the state space due to aggregate risk. Existing global...
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Advance information and consumption insurance : evidence from panel data
Pedroni, Marcelo; Singh, Swapnil; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2022 - Preliminary, April 15, 2022
We investigate whether US households possess advance information about their future income and what this means for consumption insurance. Based on insights from a theoretical model, we propose a new test to detect advance information, which requires only panel data on consumption and income....
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Macroeconomic Implications of Inequality and Income Risk
Aladangady, Aditya; Gagnon, Etienne; Johannsen, Benjamin K. - 2021
We explore the long-run relationship between income risk, inequality, and the macroeconomy in an overlapping … they require for bearing risk, leading to higher measured income and wealth inequality, a lower risk-free real interest … rate, and higher risk premiums. These findings suggest that the factors behind the observed rise in inequality over the …
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A note on the size distribution of consumption : more double Pareto than lognormal
Akira Toda, Alexis - 2015
The cross-sectional distribution of consumption is commonly approximated by the lognormal distribution. This note shows that consumption is better described by the double Pareto-lognormal distribution (dPlN), which has a lognormal body with two Pareto tails and arises as the stationary...
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Household income risk, nominal frictions, and incomplete markets : conference paper
Bayer, Christian; Luetticke, Ralph; Lien Pham; Tjaden, … - 2013
This paper examines the effects of changes in uncertainty of household income on the macroeconomy. Households face substantial idiosyncratic income risk that is up to two orders of magnitude larger than total factor productivity uncertainty, very persistent and varies substantially over the...
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Differential mortality and the progressivity of social security
Bagchi, Shantanu - 2016
I examine if the positive correlation between wealth and survivorship has any implications for the progressivity of Social Security's current benefit-earnings rule. Using a general-equilibrium macroeconomic model calibrated to the U.S. economy, I show that the optimal benefit-earnings link for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554131
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Risk aversion heterogeneity, risky jobs and wealth inequality
Cozzi, Marco - 2011
heterogeneity to quantify their effects on wealth inequality. The results show that with the available estimates of the risk … aversion distribution from PSID data the model can match the observed degree of wealth inequality in the U.S., accounting for …
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Means testing and Social Security in the United States
Bagchi, Shantanu - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 68-91
This paper uses a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a higher...
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Intergenerational sharing of unhedgeable inflation risk
Chen, Damiaan H. J.; Beetsma, Roel; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2022 - This version: November 16, 2022
We explore how members of a collective pension scheme can share inflation risks in the absence of suitable financial market instruments. Using intergenerational risk sharing arrangements, risks can be allocated better across the various participants of a collective pension scheme than would be...
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Cyclical consumption
Berger, Tino; Pozzi, Lorenzo - 2023
Recessions and expansions are often caused or reinforced by developments in private consumption - the largest component of aggregate demand - which, as a result, varies over the business cycle. As such, an accurate measurement of the cyclical component of consumption and an understanding of its...
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