In this paper, we develop an analytically tractable dynamic model of optimal consumption and savings decisions with disastrous income risk. We first empirically explore the relations among consumption changes, aggregate income, disaster shock severity, and fiscal measures in 55 countries during...

In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, there is increased concern about the potentially catastrophic pension default risk, which results in significant decreases in pension benefits. In order to address the challenge of annuity income uncertainty, I propose a dynamic annuitization...

In this paper, we develop a new dynamic programming approach for solving an optimal retirement model in a two-dimensional incomplete market, which is induced by forced unemployment risk and borrowing constraints. We show that the two dimensions jointly affect an individual's optimal consumption,...