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Forecasting Value-at-Risk using Block Structure Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models
Asai, Manabu; Caporin, Massimiliano; McAleer, Michael - 2013
stochastic volatility models. The empirical analysis on stock returns on the US market shows that 1% and 5 % Value-at-Risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326487
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Forecasting value-at-risk using block structure multivariate stochastic volatility models
Asai, Manabu; Caporin, Massimiliano; McAleer, Michael - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767006
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Household saving behavior: The role of literacy, information and financial education programs
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2007
-Americans and Hispanics. Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298377
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Increasing the effectiveness of financial education in the workplace
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298401
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A simulation method to measure the tax burden on highly skilled manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2006
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between employment costs and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300176
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The growth of participant direction in defined contribution plans
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2009
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This study summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward participant direction and uses IRS Form 5500 data to investigate the effect of worker and plan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269133
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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271319
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Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … when the assumptions used in the empirical analysis are invalid? (3) How valuable are pensions to households? Simulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278632
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Social Security Reform in the US: Lessons from Hungary
Simonovits, András - 2006
The partial privatization of the US Social Security system was clearly the top economic policy priority for the new Bush administration. While many famous economists, publicists and politicians support, others reject the partial privatization of the Social Security system. The international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494349
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251