Showing 1 - 10 of 12,041
We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store-or-sow"" model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high precautionary saving in the safe asset and low investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396572
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015076695
increases households' precautionary savings. In the model, the combination of income risk and the precautionary savings motive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487744
In this paper we assess the implications of precautionary savings for global imbalances by considering a world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123991
In this paper we assess the implications of precautionary savings for global imbalances by considering a world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399356
This paper analyzes how the combination of borrowing constraints and idiosyncratic risk affects the equity premium in … idiosyncratic risk increases the equity premium by 70 percent, which means that the mechanism described in Constantinides, Donaldson … the zero-borrowing constraint is a lot weaker. More surprisingly, when I introduce idiosyncratic labor income risk in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485596
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623898
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001323773
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011684752