Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2014 - This version: March 20, 2014
aggregate risk. We argue that interactions between the two risks are important for this question. One is a direct interaction in … the form of a countercyclical variance of idiosyncratic income risk. The other indirectly emerges over a household's life …-cycle because retirement savings contain the history of idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks. We show that this leads to risk …