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We examine time discounting factors in an international survey. Our analysis reveals a significant relationship between time discount factors and historical equity premiums across 27 countries. This result implies that higher historical equity risk premiums are observed in countries where survey...
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We elicit time discounting factors in an international survey. Our analysis reveals a significant relationship between time discount factors and historical equity premium across 27 countries. It implies that in countries where participants tend to be more short-term oriented, higher historical...
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rate adjustments. The formulation is theory-based, relying on balance of payments equilibrium conditions and international …
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A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
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seriously adverse outcomes. If the composition of wealth shifts into the hands of investors with higher coefficients of relative … calculates likely magnitudes of the decline and presents evidence in favor of a shift in the composition of wealth toward the …
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seriously adverse outcomes. If the composition of wealth shifts into the hands of investors with higher coefficients of relative … calculates likely magnitudes of the decline and presents evidence in favor of a shift in the composition of wealth toward the …
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wealth - the difference between firm's wealth (equity and debt) and capital employed. Surplus wealth rose from -$0 … 1974 - 2015. In step 2 we test the hypothesis surplus wealth is associated with IT transformed firms, establishing an … empirical link of IT with monopoly power. Step 3 is theoretical, explaining why theory shows we should expect these results, by …
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. Distributional information on households' wealth is available from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of survey fieldwork periods with the national accounts … time series; and (v) computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of most euro area …
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This chapter offers an overview of the empirical and theoretical research on the long-run evolution of wealth and … inheritance. Wealth–income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries … show that over a wide range of models, the long-run magnitude and concentration of wealth and inheritance are an increasing …
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The coefficient of relative risk aversion (CRRA) is notoriously difficult to estimate. Recently, Barro and Jin (On the size distribution of macroeconomic disasters, Econometrica 2011; 79(3): 434–455) have come up with a new estimation approach that fits a power-law model to the tail of...
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